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
so i ended up being one of the last three people physically on the wing. i climbed up the ladder on to the rescue boaoat, a and at tha poinint t kind of ananother wav relief wenent through me. all of t the sudden n i was in darkest, darkest place, and i just got my life back. 155 men, women, and children coming off a plane in the water. these are passengers from us airways flight 1549. a us airways source tells cnn the pilot s name is captain chesley b. sully sullenberger. he had lost 14 pounds in like the four days or three days before he e came home.e. just like when you re really worried oror sick, he had reala dark circleses underer his e ey. hehe looked gaununt. he was distatant. when i went to hug him, , the e