jim acosta. i ll see you again next weekend. good night. mar-a-lago. welcome to the whole story . i m anderson cooper. last week at tokyo s haneda airport, a plane collided with a smaller aircraft. five crewmembers on the coast guard plane died. but amazingly, all 379 people on the airbus survived. they were safely evacuated before the plane was engulfed in flames. investigation into what happened is still under way. it got us thinking about utah miraculous story of survival that happened 15 years ago this month. us airways flight 1549 took off from new york s la guardia airport heading to charlotte, north carolina. there were 150 passengers on board and 5 crew members, including the pilot, chap tain chesley sully sullenberger. it should have been a quick two-hour flight. but soon after takeoff 2 plane collided with a flock of geese. the plane went down. captain sully headed towards the hudson river for an emergency landing. his decisiveness saved the lives of all 158 peop
story . i m anderson cooper. last week at tokyo s haneda airport, a jal airbus collided with a smaller aircraft. five crew members on the coast guard plane died. but amazingly, all 379 people on the airbus survived. they were safely evacuated before the plane was engulfed in flames. investigation into what happened is still under way. it got us thinking about that miraculous story of survival that happened 15 years ago this month. us airways flight 1549 took off from new york s laguardia airport heading to charlotte, north carolina. there were 150 passengers onboard and 5 crew members, including the pilot, captain chesley sully sullenberger. it should have been a quick two-hour flight. but soon after takeoff the plane collided with a flock of geese. both engines went out and the plane headed down. captain sullenberger acted quickly, heading towards the hudson river for an emergency landing. his decisiveness saved the lives of all 159 people onboard. but this potential trage
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seas aren t rough, the visibility is not that poor, which makes you lead to believe that mechanical or human error. yeah. now, this picture here from the camera, this is a camera that s order up just by wnbc, their traffic cam, and they have trained eyes here. it looks foggy. yeah, i mean because there are showers going through now. but earlier when the incident occurred, it wasn t like that. so that s what makes me believe that s not the case. okay. i mean, the currents in new york harbor are infamous. but these ferries is a free ferry, anyone can travel it. a lot of tourists travel it back and forth. and the currents are a lot. but these ferry drivers go back and forth probably, you know, 10 to 20 times in one of their shifts. so, you know, you wouldn t think they would be surprised by much. yeah, tremendously heavy ferries, as well. you wouldn t think that some minor swells, if any even exist today, given the report you re giving us, would contribute to this. so for peop