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
ththis was onene good newsws st. why is this called miracle on the hudson ? there are a few different reasons. one is that governor patterson of new york at time essentially came up with this term. we ve had a miracle on 34th street. i believe now we ve had a miracle on the hudson. the real reason is that this was truly a miracle. it s the most successful ditching of an aircraft of all time. you could not write this storory better. > i tooook ouout a busisines from my wallet and jusust t scririptabled a rereally fast n and i sasaid to my momom and my sister, i love e yoyou. because i thought in the worst case does happen and the plane crashes and disintegrates, at least i wanted them to know i was thinking about them in those last few seconds.
the plane went down. captain sully headed towards the hudson river for an emergency landing. his decisiveness saved the lives of all 158 people on board. but this potential tragedy turned miracle was traumatic for many on the plane, including the captain. over the next hour, you ll hear from them about what they went through on that flight and get an intimate look into their lives 15 years after the event they say changed them forever. cactus 1539, hihit birds. lost t thrust and focus.s. turning g back towarards la gua. 1529, d do yoyou want to try land 13? we may end up in the hudson. traffic to unable.
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.
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