minutes to impact. the air traffic controllers using the wrong flight number try and guide the plane to an airport. yout to try to land we may end up in the hudson. 1549 it s going to be runway 31. unable. just north of the george washington bridge, the captain aligns the air bus a 320ith the hudson river. he passes the bridge to the east and continues due south. i looked out the window, so we were below the rooftops of manhattan. this is not a good sign. we re not making newark. did sully look at you and say we re going in the water. i think it was more that was the only option we had. we weren t going to make it to an airport. that was the only open spot that we saw. if a pilot is forced to ditch, the faa has recommendations for how to do so. it all comes down to when and