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And everybody started to say prayers, and we were looking at each other not knowing what to say or do. >> at 3:30 p.m. with wing flaps and slats extended to help slow the plane down, flight 1549 is about to splash down in the hudson river. >> as you watch this unfold, everything is just about right. slow, the nose is up, the wings are level, and they have the good fortune of it being very calm. >> we did not know if we were hitting water or hitting land, which is what we were betting off. and then the impact of hitting the water was just the most tremendous impact you could imagine. >> all 155...

for gas, once again becoming the new normal. what's behind that sharp price hike? wolf blitzer is off today. i'm candy crowley, you are in "the situation room." an alleged plot for a suicide bomb attack on the u.s. capitol busted today in an undercover operation. officials say a moroccan man is under arrest after accepting a vest he believed was filled with explosives. cnn's brian todd is at the courthouse in alexandria, virginia. what's the latest there? >> reporter: candy, we're told the suspect has arrived at this federal district court in alexandria, virginia, for a court appea...

Baldwin's war of words on twitter after american airlines flight attendants threw him off a flight. he was playing a game on his cell phone and refused to turn it off. >> this is the dumbest story of the morning. shut off the game. let the plane -- what are they going to do? >> some people don't want to turn their cell phones off. it doesn't do anything to the plane. if your cell phone can take the plane down, none of us should be flying. >> i agree. alec had a temper tantrum on the plane. i don't get it. let you be the judge in a few seconds. later this half-hour, the tunes you listen to in...

In the aviation industry, it's known as ditching, putting a plane down in the water, due to an emergency. it's what happens when the nearest open space is not a runway, not even a stretch of open field or a highway, but a body of water. in the case of us airways flight 1549, the hudson river in new york city. just six minutes before the world famous splashdown, flight 1549 is cleared for taxi and takeoff at new york's laguardia airport. first officer jeffrey skiles is at the controls. he is new to the airbus. for the past eight years, he has flown a boeing 737. >> well, take-off was uneventful...

Stall and then came down. >> heather: pilots are taught from the very beginning, to bring the nose of the plane down, is that correct? >> that is correct. because that is the only way you gain air speed. if you are losing air speed you need to get some. the best wayay to do sha point e nose down and pick it you. do you remember the crash in buffalo, the pilot made the same error. he overrode and tried to pull it up. >> heather: what doing caused the crash and when do you think we'll learn more -- what do you think caused crash? >> there is never a singular crash. there is number of them. what ...