enough altitude or speed through either return to laguardia or go across the river to teterboro, new jersey. okay, which one might will you like at peterborough? we re gonna go in the hudson. so i chose the least bad option, and i was very glad to have. the least bad option? yes. reporter: the scuba team, meanwhile, launched their chopper, and as they flew by the empire state building, they could not believe what they were seeing. as we got closer, we were able to read u.s. airways, now, you know, this is a big aircrafts. they had to be a problem. that is a new york city police helicopter coming into the right side there. reporter: the nypd spotted them and the water. the temperature, 36 degrees, every second mattered, so they did not hesitate. she was panicking, and i just tried to calm her down. my first initial thought was to introduce myself to her.
where? i m in the bronx, it s turning into the corridor reporter: in a hangar near jfk, nypd s elite scuba team took in the radio traffic pieced together the calls like a bread crumb trail. i want to point, the bronx to, you start to develop a picture, wherever it is, is turning west towards the hudson river. reporter: captain sully sullenberger was indeed eyeing the white and smooth rather. it turns out we did not have enough altitude or speed through either return to laguardia or go across the river to teterboro, new jersey. okay, which one might will you like at peterborough? we re gonna go in the hudson. so i chose the least bad option, and i was very glad to have. the least bad option? yes. reporter: the scuba team, meanwhile, launched their chopper, and as they flew by
Captain Sully finally reunited with the scuba drivers who helped him rescue his passengers when US Airways Flight 1549 landed on the Hudson River in 2009.
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