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This is a story few people have heard. It begins with a passenger jet in grave danger, and the passengers onboard relying on a pilots skill to save them. All of this unfolds, mind you, over a major metropolitan area with cameras rolling and the passengers onboard desperate to reach loved ones on their cell phones. If youre thinking of Denzel Washington and the movie flight, if youre thinking of the heroism of Sully Sullenberger in real life, keep that in mind as you watch this. Tonight lester holt starts us off with a story of profound courage and determination. The images are indelible, even four years later, an airliner with both engines out splashes down in the icy hudson river, and thanks to the heroic airmanship of captain Sully Sullenberger, everyone gets out alive. But imagine an even bigger airliner carrying even more passengers attempting a similar landing on a hard runway . It was an unprecedented incident in the annals of aviation. Im just saying to myself, okay. You know, get ready. Get ready. Get ready. Bracing for impact. The story began just ten miles away from that miracle on the hudson at Newark Airport. It was halloween night 2011, 231 passengers and crew, many of them americans, were about to board Lot Polish Airlines flight 16 bound for warsaw. In the cockpit of the wide bodied boeing 767 captain tad wrona was focused on the safety of the transatlantic flight. The Maintenance Crew told him the aircraft was good to go. It looks good so we are ready to taxi and to take off. Flight 16 took off from Newark Airport just after 10 00 p. M. Soon after, was there an indication of a malfunction with one of the hughed raulic systems, but with two backups there was no cause for concern. The flight over the ocean was smooth as silk, turbulencefree. That night it was unusually smooth. But just minutes before the scheduled landing, all of that would change. It was then that Business Class passenger greg cohen noticed Flight Attendants racing in and out of the cockpit. The head Flight Attendant, you can just see all of the color out of his face. He was pale, white as a ghost. You could cut the tension with a knife. Then the word came over the p. A. This is actual video taken by a passenger on the flight. Emergency in warsaw. The plane would be making an Emergency Landing. We would like to remind you that you have to have seat belts fastened. I actually called over the Flight Attendant and i asked, what does this mean . The only thing they said to me is we think were going to make it to our destination. We think were going make it to our destination . Yes. Crew members were purposely giving no details, despite their professional demeanor, they were frightened themselves. Flight attendant mag da gortad had 17 years experience. Couldnt breathe, actually. Nobody had to tell me that we had a problem, a very serious problem. I knew it. Even more serious than she knew. This is a twin of the 767 in jeopardy as seen on the ground. You can see the landing gear, the wheels which support all of the weight of the 280,000 pound giant. But on flight 16, the emergency was that all three landing gear, the wheel withes for the boeing 767 would not go down. Captain wrona realized he had only about an hour and 20 minutes worth of fuel to figure out what to do. The widebodied jet might have to crash land on its belly and without gear, there are no brakes. Its a very dangerous situation. We could probably have a very serious problem. As the plane circled warsaw, residents took pictures from the ground. In these photos you can plainly see the gear were not lowered. Landing a plane without its wheels, an airliner belly flop would be a life or death proposition. No 767 had ever done this before. When it attempted to land at the Warsaw Airport the airliner could bounce and break up or cart wheel and turn into a fireball or it might not stop. As the cockpit crew tried to troubleshoot the problem with about 50 minutes worth of fuel remaining, in the cabin there was a growing realization something had gone seriously wrong. Passenger andres pinot. I saw one of the stewards rip down the curtains which separate the different compartments, and i said, well, thats serious, then. Thats not a game. Then with about 40 minutes to go i looked out the window and i saw f16s around our plane. Polish air force f16s were scrambled to take a look at the planes underbelly up close to see if they could determine the problem. Im not a very nervous kind of person, but as things started to unfold, i definitely even i started to become nervous. And you decided to text your wife. Yes. Yes. With about 20 minutes to go, greg cohen got a cell phone signal as they circled warsaw. What was your thought process when you had the phone. God forbid the wrong thing happens here and i didnt reach out to my wife and family and tell them how much i loved them and how much i care about them, it just would be terrible. He texted what he feared might be his last message. We are making an Emergency Landing. I think we will be okay. I love you and thank god for you and our children. Im sorry to text you this, but i love you so much. And back in new jersey his wife michelle couldnt believe what she was seeing on her phone. I broke down when i read it and i immediately started crying and i got a little sick. Hes sending a message that someone send when they dont think theyre going to make it. Its stunning to receive this. Stunning. She texted her husband back. I told him just in case, what i wanted to tell him. What was that . That hes given me the best life and the best children and i love him. And amazingly, greg got that reassuring message as he tried to reassure those around him. The woman next to me didnt speak english. She was polish and i went to hold her hand to try to comfort her. There were a lot of people who were just very quiet and praying. You know, there were people who were crying. By about ten minutes before landing, fire trucks moved into place and ambulances arrived at the airport from the center of warsaw, and while the plane was still in flight, live tv coverage across poland showed the path of a Holding Pattern while the crew tried to fix the problem. In the cockpit, the minutes flew by, but they seemed like an eternity to the passengers. It was especially tense because just 18 months earlier polands president and 95 other prominent citizens had died in the crash of the president s plane on a trip to russia, passenger andres pinot couldnt get the images of the gruesome tv coverage out of his mind. You were thinking about that tragedy even as your preparing for your emergency . Oh, yes. That had a big influence on my imagination. I did put my passport behind my shirt on my chest. To identify your body. Yeah. Yeah. If this ended badly. Yeah. Yeah. I was ready for the worst, hoping for the best. And the Flight Attendants knew that the fuel and time were running out. We do it or not . We have to do it. It was the longer five minutes of my life, actually. During those last five minutes, captain wrona gave up hope of somehow lowering the gear. He made a final calculation. They would have just one chance to touch the runway. Captain wrona would have to somehow land the plane with the engines acting like the runners of a sled on a foamed down runway. If something went wrong, he couldnt attempt to go around again. The engines would be too damaged and he knew all too well of another danger. There was a highway just at the end of the runway. 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In the first part of lester holts report here the landing gear on a 767 wide body flying from newark to warsaw refuses to come down. No one had ever tried an Emergency Landing with this aircraft in precisely this condition before. Some of the passengers realized just how dire the situation is, including an american named greg cohen who sends a final goodbye to his wife and children on his cell phone. Here now, lester holt, resumes his report. In the skies over warsaw, Lot Polish Airlines flight 16 with 231 onboard was just seconds away from attempting an Emergency Landing like no other. Across poland, millions of viewers were watching the drama unfold on live television. And as the plane descended over the city, residents ran out to take photos. Captain tad wrona had spent the last hour and 20 minutes trying to lower the wide body 767s landing gear. All of its wheels and braking system, but to no avail and he had no choice, but to belly flop the planes with the engines acting like the runners of a sled on to a concrete runway. As you can see in this actual video shot inside the cabin, in the final moments, the passengers were ready for the worst. Air Traffic Controllers wished the captain good luck and in the last few seconds, he turned to his copilot just in case. I said to my first officer, i am happy that we are together, and i said thank you, and we shake hands. I thank you. Like the other passengers, greg cohen had his head between his legs. What were the final instructions before landing . Praying to god that everything was going to be okay and im just saying to myself. Okay. Get ready. Get ready. Get ready. You know . Bracing for impact. And then it happened. Flight 16 touched down at more than 140 miles an hour. This is the moment of contact on the runway shot from inside the cabin. And then we touched down and the impact never came. You know, i was waiting for this, like, car crash. To be in an accident. No bounce . To be honest, it was one of the smoother landings ive ever had. To be honest, it was one of the smoother landings ive ever had. Had. Incredibly, it was a smooth incredibly, it was a smooth touchdown, a miracle in warsaw. The plane came to a stop, and the plane came to a stop, and then everybody roared with roa applause, but it didnt last more than two seconds, you had the fl the Flight Attendant immediatelg stand up and just yell get off this plane now plane now suddenly there was another s danger, was there smoke and a fire on the right si engine. Sid. Flight attendant mag dagoretech yelled at the top of her lungs. Get off get off get up get up get off to the exit because i ge wa was sure that that its goin to explode in a moment. N a mome. This is actual video of the eo evacuation from onboard the boa plane. Plane. Passen passengers rushed for the ge emergency emergency slides and a few felll as the as they tried to run away, but emergency crews were able to re douse the flames and the fuel leak quickly. Leak quickly. The plane didnt explode and xp except for a few scrapes and cr bruises, everyone got off one g unharmed. Unharmed. It it didnt really hit me untii i was off the plane and thats when i really got emotional and thats when it hit me, oh, my god, what could have been. D hav. Greg called michelle the moment he was clear of the plane. F the. I was just so happy he was on the ground, and i heard his i h voice crack which, you know, his voice never cracks. Ver cracks. I appreciate being with my g kids a little bit more and try to take a little extra time for the important things in life in because it could all be gone in a second. A second. And as for the pilot who got the flight down safely, captain wrona became a polish national hero, and in america he was ric honored for saving 231 lives. 2. We caught up with the captain at the museum of flight in seattle. We just did our job. Did our. I am not hero. Ero. But americans onboard flight 16 beg to differ, comparing him to the hero of the miracle on ie the hudson. The hudson. I immediately thought that h our captain was polands version. F sully. Same incredible amount of yes. Yes. What would you like to say to captain wrona . Ain wrona . I want to say thank you. Tha. If it wasnt for him, 230plus people wouldnt be here right now and im forever indebted to him for that. For that. Incredi incredible story. Bl our thanks to lester holt for e that, and by the way, the he wa investigation into what went w wrong is still going on. Going. Theres more information about that on our website tonight. 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