My dad worked for the airlines for forty years. He had long since retired when this happened ten years ago. I remember him saying to me, "If you told me that happened, I wouldn't believe it. If I saw it in a movie, I'd laugh and say it was ridiculous." People like to throw around the word "miracle." This event really was one.
@@1KingCoop Me too! I hadn't thought about what my dad had said in many years. The movie made me recall his words, but it was like the "Once More, With Clarity!" trope. I wish he was still around so I could tell him that only now do I understand what he was really saying.
@@gspendlove right, we usually never think about what they say until after they are gone, then we reflect and see what they meant. I'm so sorry for your loss.
If you listen to Sully describe what he did, and how he did it, he would never use the word miracle. He insists it's a forced water landing with complete and successful rescue by first responders, and he and Jeff and the crew knew exactly what they were doing and were confident they could do it. That's a man with ice water running in his veins.
@@joe6096 I would say you if you flew into a mountain side under complete control (CFIT) that would be classified as a crash. An aircraft accident that results in the complete write off of an aircraft is a crash. Flight 1549 crashed into geese causing destruction of both engines and a subsequent forced landing in a river resulting in an airframe total loss is a crash. A wheels up landing on a runway is a crash.
@@nocalsteve You might just want to talk to someone who actually went to flight school and earned their pilots license before talking out your behind more.
I remember seeing this news story live. I was in elementary school and they stopped class and wheeled in one of those ol wheelable tv sets and we watched this live
Same with me I was already out of school and out of the FDNY at that time in an auto shop and we saw this happen on our own television and we were satisfied that everyone was accounted for and that no one was hurt, I thought it was another accident after the November 12th 2001 aircraft accident involving American Airlines flight 587 and crashed in Astoria Queens, I was off duty from working on the pile at ground zero on November 12th 2001 and I heard Engine 292 and Rescue 4 get dispatched as the last firehouse in Queens to respond to the aircraft accident that killed everyone on board, that was just a few weeks after I was released from the hospital due to me being down at the WTC on 9/11 as an intern for the FDNY, once I got to the scene in Queens I asked if all the residents were ok and they said it was a terrorist attack and not an accident but I then went to investigate the accident with the American Airlines agency and they found out that the first officer on board flight 587 was poorly trained and he used the rudder violently at high speed this was due to the turbulence they faced from a japanese aircraft that also took off from jfk airport, they ended up coming down from the sky 2300 feet to their death, the rudder of the tail of the aircraft was turned 11 degrees in both directions and caused the tail to be ripped off causing the aircraft to fall 2300 feet to the ground including the tail, both engines ended up falling off the wings of the aircraft and fell 1700 feet to the ground, once the aircraft hit the ground everything went from just a normal sunny day to a fiery hell day with the end of flight 587. We had a similar situation with united airlines flight 585 it crashed in colorado springs colorado from high winds, but for the end of flight 93 they fell 2500 feet to the ground because of it being shot down by the military because the hijackers wanted to also reach washington dc to hit the white house instead of the pentagon like american airlines flight 77 did with its hijackers or even the twin towers like american airlines flight 11 and united airlines flight 175 did they wanted to kill the president and not just the governors of the united states, now I did respond from the catskills just north of saratoga springs to the upper east side of manhattan to help the people stay calm and so that i can try to piece together what happened to the aircraft just after takeoff, sully said a flock of canadian geese came really close to his aircraft and he accidentally killed them when they hit the plane, I immediately hailed him as a hero along with many others on the scene, after he was taken to safety he was interviewed so the investigators could figure out exactly what happened and so that they can prevent something like this from happening again, then the next day i returned to the auto shop and saw the aftermath of the landing, from fresh video showing flight 1549 landing in the hudson river shot by a surveillance camera just across the street from the docks, then we also saw the documentary of it on the smithsonian channel a few years later, we were lucky enough to have been there to help
I don't blame the random guy on the street who probably knows little to nothing about flying for thinking Sully was trying to gain altitude when he flared. It's what most people would've thought seeing it.
"He made a last-ditch effort to gain altitude" Decent guess, but I don't think so. That thing the guy mentioned about "damaging the fuselage"? Sully knew that. He pulled the nose up specifically to give them the best possible landing under the circumstances.
DataTasha4Ever I’m sure if you know little about aviation you assume pulling the nose up means an attempt to gain altitude. Few people know that during all landings the nose is elevated to a certain degree to maintain stability once contact with the ground is made
Sully made that adjustment on purpose for the landing. He knew he needed the nose just slightly up at an angle to keep it from catching the water and flipping over, but not too much that would tear up the tail and put it into a spin. He also knew he needed to be between 120-128 mph when touching down on the water. So he executed a pinpoint landing with accuracy, skill, and extreme precision.
It was nearly dark and they are probably in a helicopter over a mile (at least) away. It’s not *that* bad quality like actual RUclips potato videos from around 2009.
@@TheMW2informer yeah it's bad. If the first Star Wars was filmed in 1977 and looks clear, why is something from 2009 look blurry and shot from a camera made out of a cheap potato 🥔?
I remember hearing about this on the news and they did say it was a bird strike more specifically the birds got sucked into the engine intakes on the right wing and the strike was caught on a passengers camera phone that's right there's a video of what happened.
From New Jersey to New York City how a man can reach. What is the communication and transportation system. The Subway Train Services, The Ferry Services and On the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge in the roadway any man can easily reached the NYC. Thanks man.
It was not "a last ditch attempt" to get altitude and a coincidence. It was deliberate as the optinum angle was the nose 11 degrees up and he was close to it apparently.
Crazy thing is that we know a lot of the details about who went in the water. First to feel the water were those at the very back when the fuselage was damaged by the force of landing, like flight attendant Doreen Welsh. First to jump off was Barry Leonard, who'd cracked his ribs already. He thought he had to jump when the chute at his door failed to deploy with the flight attendants in the forward galley who still believed they'd landed on grass and hadn't started yelling "don your life vests/come this way!". The forward flight attendants, Donna Dent and Sheila Dail, quickly stopped others from jumping out and deployed the raft manually, and deadheading pilot Derek Alter pulled Barry onto the raft after boarding it. Couple of people freaked out and jumped off the wings and a few slipped off accidentally because of the jet fuel. Then there were people who slid down or off to pull others back up. Last person out of the water was a woman who was saved by the police divers. As it was, basically everyone ended up wet. I absorb information about things like this readily, and honestly I wish I knew what to do with it other than commenting.
My dad worked for the airlines for forty years. He had long since retired when this happened ten years ago. I remember him saying to me, "If you told me that happened, I wouldn't believe it. If I saw it in a movie, I'd laugh and say it was ridiculous." People like to throw around the word "miracle." This event really was one.
I just seen Sully on TNT & After the movie went off I came straight here.
@@1KingCoop Me too! I hadn't thought about what my dad had said in many years. The movie made me recall his words, but it was like the "Once More, With Clarity!" trope. I wish he was still around so I could tell him that only now do I understand what he was really saying.
@@gspendlove right, we usually never think about what they say until after they are gone, then we reflect and see what they meant. I'm so sorry for your loss.
If you listen to Sully describe what he did, and how he did it, he would never use the word miracle. He insists it's a forced water landing with complete and successful rescue by first responders, and he and Jeff and the crew knew exactly what they were doing and were confident they could do it.
That's a man with ice water running in his veins.
I was a junior in high school when it happened. It already feels so long ago when I felt relief that everyone survived.
The plane flew passed my job on 125th. I remember telling my boss... 9/11 is happening again. Luckily it was this
Just remember folks, it was NOT a crash - it was a forced water landing!
It’s still a crash. The argument is that it’s a forced water landing instead of a ditching.
@@nocalsteve Wrong. Crash is the result of something out of control. Cpts Sully and Skyles were in absolute control of the aircraft.
@@joe6096 I would say you if you flew into a mountain side under complete control (CFIT) that would be classified as a crash. An aircraft accident that results in the complete write off of an aircraft is a crash. Flight 1549 crashed into geese causing destruction of both engines and a subsequent forced landing in a river resulting in an airframe total loss is a crash. A wheels up landing on a runway is a crash.
@@nocalsteve You might just want to talk to someone who actually went to flight school and earned their pilots license before talking out your behind more.
@@joe6096 Okay, I’ll just ask myself then since I have a pilot certificate.
I was in kindergarten when this happened and had just enough awareness to process the news but not enough to distinguish it from 9/11
I remember seeing this news story live. I was in elementary school and they stopped class and wheeled in one of those ol wheelable tv sets and we watched this live
Same with me I was already out of school and out of the FDNY at that time in an auto shop and we saw this happen on our own television and we were satisfied that everyone was accounted for and that no one was hurt, I thought it was another accident after the November 12th 2001 aircraft accident involving American Airlines flight 587 and crashed in Astoria Queens, I was off duty from working on the pile at ground zero on November 12th 2001 and I heard Engine 292 and Rescue 4 get dispatched as the last firehouse in Queens to respond to the aircraft accident that killed everyone on board, that was just a few weeks after I was released from the hospital due to me being down at the WTC on 9/11 as an intern for the FDNY, once I got to the scene in Queens I asked if all the residents were ok and they said it was a terrorist attack and not an accident but I then went to investigate the accident with the American Airlines agency and they found out that the first officer on board flight 587 was poorly trained and he used the rudder violently at high speed this was due to the turbulence they faced from a japanese aircraft that also took off from jfk airport, they ended up coming down from the sky 2300 feet to their death, the rudder of the tail of the aircraft was turned 11 degrees in both directions and caused the tail to be ripped off causing the aircraft to fall 2300 feet to the ground including the tail, both engines ended up falling off the wings of the aircraft and fell 1700 feet to the ground, once the aircraft hit the ground everything went from just a normal sunny day to a fiery hell day with the end of flight 587. We had a similar situation with united airlines flight 585 it crashed in colorado springs colorado from high winds, but for the end of flight 93 they fell 2500 feet to the ground because of it being shot down by the military because the hijackers wanted to also reach washington dc to hit the white house instead of the pentagon like american airlines flight 77 did with its hijackers or even the twin towers like american airlines flight 11 and united airlines flight 175 did they wanted to kill the president and not just the governors of the united states, now I did respond from the catskills just north of saratoga springs to the upper east side of manhattan to help the people stay calm and so that i can try to piece together what happened to the aircraft just after takeoff, sully said a flock of canadian geese came really close to his aircraft and he accidentally killed them when they hit the plane, I immediately hailed him as a hero along with many others on the scene, after he was taken to safety he was interviewed so the investigators could figure out exactly what happened and so that they can prevent something like this from happening again, then the next day i returned to the auto shop and saw the aftermath of the landing, from fresh video showing flight 1549 landing in the hudson river shot by a surveillance camera just across the street from the docks, then we also saw the documentary of it on the smithsonian channel a few years later, we were lucky enough to have been there to help
I don't blame the random guy on the street who probably knows little to nothing about flying for thinking Sully was trying to gain altitude when he flared. It's what most people would've thought seeing it.
"He made a last-ditch effort to gain altitude"
Decent guess, but I don't think so. That thing the guy mentioned about "damaging the fuselage"? Sully knew that. He pulled the nose up specifically to give them the best possible landing under the circumstances.
DataTasha4Ever I’m sure if you know little about aviation you assume pulling the nose up means an attempt to gain altitude. Few people know that during all landings the nose is elevated to a certain degree to maintain stability once contact with the ground is made
He brought the nose up to bleed off some speed to land at the slowest possible speed without falling out of the sky
Sully made that adjustment on purpose for the landing. He knew he needed the nose just slightly up at an angle to keep it from catching the water and flipping over, but not too much that would tear up the tail and put it into a spin. He also knew he needed to be between 120-128 mph when touching down on the water.
So he executed a pinpoint landing with accuracy, skill, and extreme precision.
@@joe6096 Yep. It wasn't a chance side effect of an attempt to do something else entirely, what happened was exactly what he was trying to do.
It's 2011 and it looks like the news shooting video with a potato. And not an Idaho originated one.
Majority of the footage looks like its filmed on a telephoto lens at length.
probabaly still was taped.
It was nearly dark and they are probably in a helicopter over a mile (at least) away. It’s not *that* bad quality like actual RUclips potato videos from around 2009.
@@TheMW2informer yeah it's bad. If the first Star Wars was filmed in 1977 and looks clear, why is something from 2009 look blurry and shot from a camera made out of a cheap potato 🥔?
This is very zoomed in thats why. Also the youtube video seems to have suffered quite a bit. You can see the text being pixelated too.
I remember hearing about this on the news and they did say it was a bird strike more specifically the birds got sucked into the engine intakes on the right wing and the strike was caught on a passengers camera phone that's right there's a video of what happened.
From New Jersey to New York City how a man can reach. What is the communication and transportation system. The Subway Train Services, The Ferry Services and On the Brooklyn Bridge and Manhattan Bridge in the roadway any man can easily reached the NYC. Thanks man.
It was not "a last ditch attempt" to get altitude and a coincidence. It was deliberate as the optinum angle was the nose 11 degrees up and he was close to it apparently.
Trying to flare, not gain altitude
I remember watching this on TV. I was only 4 but I remember
I feel so sorry for those who were forced into the water right off the bat. (Likely women)
It must have been so freaking cold.
Crazy thing is that we know a lot of the details about who went in the water. First to feel the water were those at the very back when the fuselage was damaged by the force of landing, like flight attendant Doreen Welsh. First to jump off was Barry Leonard, who'd cracked his ribs already. He thought he had to jump when the chute at his door failed to deploy with the flight attendants in the forward galley who still believed they'd landed on grass and hadn't started yelling "don your life vests/come this way!". The forward flight attendants, Donna Dent and Sheila Dail, quickly stopped others from jumping out and deployed the raft manually, and deadheading pilot Derek Alter pulled Barry onto the raft after boarding it. Couple of people freaked out and jumped off the wings and a few slipped off accidentally because of the jet fuel. Then there were people who slid down or off to pull others back up. Last person out of the water was a woman who was saved by the police divers. As it was, basically everyone ended up wet.
I absorb information about things like this readily, and honestly I wish I knew what to do with it other than commenting.
This was US Airways Flight 1549
The worlds worst news anchor