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*ORIGINAL* Air Traffic Control Audio Clip From Flight 1549 As it Crash Lands In Hudson River

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Uploaded by on Feb 5, 2009

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Minutes after he reported hitting birds and losing power in both engines, the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 calmly told an air traffic controller the plane would ditch into the Hudson River.

"We can't do it," pilot Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger said at 3:29 p.m. on January 15, in response to efforts to land the plane at New Jersey's Teterboro airport, according to a recording released Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration.

"We're gonna be in the Hudson," Sullenberger said, about three and a half minutes after the Airbus A320 took off from New York's LaGuardia Airport.

"I'm sorry, say again," said the controller, from New York Tracon, a radar facility on Long Island that handles flights after they depart from LaGuardia or Teterboro airports.. Listen to pilot talk to controllers

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  • Absolutely amazing :)

  • im amazed at how calm the pilot sounds even though he is about to crash. superb

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  • um well considering landing a commercial plane on water is nearly impossible to do, and in doing so this man saved hundreds of lives, id say alot of people give a shit. why do u have to take a heroic positive moment in our history and be an ass about it

  • He saved more then 150 lives.. if he would tryed to go to newark or Tterboro.. he would crashed in to homes along the way.. he's smart

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  • Lost thrust in both engines.

    ...Which engines?!

    He lost thrust in both engines, he said.

  • Sully: bird strike? really?

    tut....fiiiiiine

  • unable...

  • very smart descison

  • wow. it's surprising, how the ATC continued to deal with other aircrafts as well.

  • lol i heard it to dude.. lol!

  • At 1:23 somebody says idiot. I'm guessing that was another pilot that was on the radio, saying the air traffic controller was idiot because sully couldn't land at Teteburo.

  • Epic pilot. USAF ftw

  • he was full of fuel he didnt have a glide slope to land anywhere.

  • they said "1529" but its "1549"

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