The Story of Flight 1549 | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Something a little different this week. Once a year, around the holidays, I want to share the story of a disaster that didn't happen - a tragedy that, whether through luck, the bravery of those involved, or simple good planning, was averted. In this story, everyone survives... although it's definitely a close call.
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Saved an entire plane of people and still called the library to apologise for a book being ruined. What a legend.
Yeah, an absolute chad of a madlad
What can he say? Guy's a true bookworm.
And it was literally a book about safety and accountability
When it first happened I heard that many pilots attempted the landing in a flight simulator but none of them could land it
No, he saved far more people than were in that plane. This all occurred in and over NYC on a weekday, meaning the city was full of commuters. Manhattan *alone* has a commuter-adjusted population of about 8 million people. Since the plane first had to cross the Bronx heading northwest and then swing south along Manhattan to use the Hudson for touchdown, we're talking easily 10 million people on the ground who could have been affected if anything else had gone wrong between the time the engines cut and the time the plane actually landed.
If he'd gone with his initial plan and turned back to La Guardia Airport where the flight had started, an airport with relatively short runways and directly next to many densely-packed residential areas, it is very likely everyone in the plane and MANY thousands of people on the ground would have been killed. Diverting to Teterboro in New Jersey, the next airport suggested, would have been catastrophic also.
He ignored dual engine failure protocol. He turned down multiple runway offers at nearby airports. He chose to attempt a very risky waterway landing (which he'd never actually attempted before) on a narrow river, filled with bridges, next to a major city, while having almost no ability to control altitude - the plane cleared the top of the George Washington Bridge by only 900 feet. And he saved not only every life in his charge on that plane, but also the lives of countless New Yorkers -- people who'd had to watch, less than eight years earlier, as two other large commercial airliners were intentionally crashed into buildings about 4 miles from the spot where he completed "the most successful ditching in aviation history" according to the National Transportation Safety Board.
And then he calls the library to apologize about the book??? He deserves a monument.
Captain Sullenberger says that when the aircraft came to rest, he and the co-pilot both looked at eachother and said "Well, that wasn't as bad as I expected."
Just another day on the job
What's the old saw? "Any landing you walk away from is a good one." This was a good one alright.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
This sent me
they were very worried about the plane ripping apart on contact, their reactions were pretty calm and measured. The audio of this flight is available (i cant remember where but it was a youtube video) and they were as professional as possible given the circumstances.
the part that hit me the hardest about this whole thing was that Captain Sully paced the plane twice to make sure no one was left behind. Defintion of a true Captain.
A few ship captains throughout history would've had a lot to learn from him.
If what I've read is true, the water was up to his chest in back by the time he did his second walkthrough. Fortunately, balls float.
@@donweatherwax9318 wow...holy crap.
Captain of the flying ship
just showing off
There's accountability, and then there's Captain Sullenberger.
Spend a lifetime of good practice and you may survive the few minutes of real crisis.
@@pointcuration1278 whoa those are some deep thoughts
And who better to play him in the movie but Tom Hanks
Sully deserves everyone's respect.
Yeah but what about the library book damn he even apologised for it- the guys a legend
The captain went back twice to make sure everyone was safe. That's the part that impresses me the most.
Unlike boats, there's no rules about pilots going down with their plane.
@@AngelEmfrbl there's not a rule for captains to go down with the ship either. There is a rule for captains to make sure everyone that can be saved gets off the ship.
The word hero gets overused and cheapened a lot, but Capt Sully is a true superhero.
On another video the presenter stated that the landing would have been a disaster if the wings hadn’t been exactly level and the timing of the flare to slow down and the angle of attack at touchdown hadn’t been perfect. He said that the correct timing-window was only 1/4 of a second. Few pilots could have matched Sully. Thank goodness he said “My plane.”
He was willing to go down with the s̶h̶i̶p̶ plane.
Sully is the *reason* why everyone survived that day, and the fact that the airline tried to tarnish his reputation and remove him from his position just because they were too afraid to admit that things just happen that you can’t control sometimes is just sickening.
I’m glad that he is regarded as the hero that he is.
I do recall that their knee-jerk reaction was to throw him under the bus _hard_ for refusing to go to one of the two airports, only for people to grab pitchforks when all the details came out and it turned out he had done nothing wrong and in fact had prevented a disaster.
Someone at US Airlines definitely got fired for that oof. XD
And the worst part about their attempts to do so is that in the aviation industry, the idea of any accident investigation is not to assign blame, but to ensure things don't happen again. The entire reason for it being that it ensures that people don't try and hide that things that may have been contributory factors to the accident.
@@planescaped I remember that when i was a kid. And i remember i said "That's bullshit! He's a hero."
I was surprised that people were trying to prove his choice of action was wrong considering he hadn't gotten anyone killed by the landing. If everyone was safe then why argue his decision.
Annie D Because planes are very expensive and US Airways lost one. My guess is the insurance carrier did not cover "purposeful destruction of an aircraft" even if it was the only option.
Sully's very first interview went to his daughter's high school paper? Damn, that makes me respect this guy even more!
I love it
That is so cute and what a story!
He lives in Vermont and Vermonters are so proud of him.
@@marinaasaro I guess all the best people are from Vermont
@@marinaasaro
And Vermonters are notorious when it comes to respecting and protecting the privacy of their well known neighbors.
While us humans call this “the miracle on the Hudson”, birds know it as “the Hudson massacre”
LMAO IM DECEASED
Sullenberger: "And today's inflight meal will be pureed goose basted over an open flame and lightly seasoned with kerosene."
@@korbell1089 underrated reply 😂
What if it's actually the Great Goose Suicide?
It was a live art exhibit: "The Hubris Of Geese"
Sully: "What a view of the Hudson today."
Birds: *"Want a closer look?"*
this is a banger why doesn’t it have more likes
I laughed
😂
This made me laugh more than it should
LoL 😆
Plane crashes where everybody lives. Missing persons found alive. Would-be victims who escape their murderers and come home safe. I like my fair share of dark but happy endings are always the best
So true!
Ikr
Well said amigo.
As much as I enjoy dark stories, ultimately I have to agree with you.
British Airways 5390 is my favorite almost disaster. If you're not familiar with the case, there are several good videos on UA-cam. Gets me right in the feelings every time I revisit the story.
"The pilot took two trips through to plane to make sure anyone knocked unconscious wouldn't get left behind."
Now that's a dedicated, good man.
truly. some captains (in the sea anyway) just abandon their sinking ship while passengers are still inside! it’s the most honorable thing to stay until you’re sure everyone is safe off your ship.
@@weewooweewoo906 Exactly the Captain of the Yarmouth Castle just didn’t care. He did not even alarm his passengers about a fire. That guy hopefully got what he deserves
That is what airline pilots do. The FO probably checked too.
the truth is he was looking for his book
@@weewooweewoo906 Costa Concordia comes to mind
He apologized to his library for losing a library book in an air disaster. Can this man be any more pure?
What did you expect him to do, tell them to go fish their f..ing book from the Hudson river?
@@clray123 Well they did get it back, they recovered the plane and he mentioned the book was "severely waterlogged"
Yes, he can. The book was "Just Culture: Balancing Safety and Accountability"
I know, right???
thats so wholesome bro
@@clray123 no need to be so abrasive! He could have just not rang them at all...... 🤷🏻♀️🙄
"Without a single death"
Goose: *hisses and honks angrily*
Isn't that normal for geese
they probably deserved it, lil bastards
Majestic. Barrel chested. The envies of all ornithologies.
Maybe the Canadian Geeses knew the next Hitler was onboard and sacrificed themselves to save whole of humanity from nuclear war by giving him a near death experience.
@@MrBassistfromhell *geese
🤣
Sully is an American hero. Not only did everyone survive, some people didn't even get their shoes wet.
God bless Sully.
Well not everyone, those geese for one
@@stevenhale2935 RIP Geese, they will be missed
Perhaps God could have prevented the birds flying into the engines in the first place. Save a lot of trouble that way.
@@runcaz7802 You're very smart
Why....thank you.
They neglected to mention that, following the conclusion of the accident investigation hearings, a NTSB official asked the flight crew if there was anything else that could have been done to have made the outcome different, wherein Skiles replied, "Yes, we could have done it in July".
They might be thankful for the water landing then 😅
That was the perfect answer 👍👍
I'm not sure if he actually said it, or it was just his character in the movie, but I'll take your word for it. 😊
@@Erin-rg3dw mmm yes, MUCH less likely to get hypothermia in july. :D
Fascinating Horror: Captain Sullenburger had time to utter just a single word:
Me: "Fuck"
Fascinating Horror: "Birds"
Me: Oh
Lmao
I was thinkin the same word😂
Captain Sully has more balls then all of us combined. I'd be freaking out.
The man has nerves of steel, because fuck would be my choice of words....
Ha
Unrelated, but heyyyy! Another Nights fan :D
Something that I never hear talked about, is the air traffic controller, Pat Harten. This man was a hero that day as well. Listen to the black box recordings, it is chilling and amazing at the same time. This man was simultaneously and very calmly giving options to Captain Sullenberger, advising those around him that he had an incoming emergency, clearing runways at La Guardia AND Teterboro, calling other planes/helicopters in the area for eyes on information after the jet dropped off radar, getting fire/rescue rolling to the Hudson as well as letting harbor officials know to advise ferries and river traffic of an emergent river landing. Hats off Mr. Harten. You were definitely the right man for the job that day!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Well said and well done that man 👏👏👏❤❤❤
Hear hear!
Truly the unsung hero in this story. Thanx for bringing his name to light!
So glad you brought this up. My husband and I were just talking about all the heroes that day. The captain and copilot, the flight attendants that kept their wits about them and remained calm, the ferry men, the passengers for heaven sake. I would have curled up in a ball crying my eyes out. But these folks bucked up and did what they needed to do. All of them knowing they were most likely going to die. I didn't even think of the air traffic controller. Yes, another hero that day. Thank you for that reminder.
He also didn’t know for a little while if the plane was destroyed on impact. Radio communications with ATC obviously ceased when the ditching began. Imagine thinking you heard the last words of a dead captain and F/O. He said he almost collapsed when he heard the good news.
@@redmanish right, that's why he was asking traffic near the plane (helicopters other planes) for eyes on reports after he lost them from radar. He was one cool headed, well trained hero.
“Yeah Martha, I was in a crash and... yeah I’m ok thanks. I just wanted to say that I won’t be able to return the library book I borrowed.”
Oh no? Well I'm glad you're ok. That'll be $69.95
I think this is the only “Fascinating Horror” story where everyone survived. A breath of fresh air 😃
I was thinking that as well. As if it didn't dawn on me that it was possible until I watched this one lol
A good way to finish 2020
Except the birds..
@@secretmagic331 Canadian Geese!
[Cue "Blame Canada" from South Park: Bigger, Longer, And Uncut]
@@emilyadams3228 Damn birds are everywhere...can't blame 'em though when there's easy food in the parks, golf courses, and stormwater retention ponds.
I got to see captain Sully speak at a college, and when he came out on stage, everyone was applauding and cheering for him. When the crowd quieted, he laughed and said “I haven’t even said anything yet!” He was down to earth, funny, and clearly brilliant.
I love that guy. Excellent pilots are my heroes and pilots don't get any better than our man Sully. Lets hope his retirement is a good one. He deserves it.
3:19 "Unable" is the precise term that pilots are supposed use to indicate that a directive by air traffic control cannot be carried out in a safe manner. This is meant to clarify that the pilot is not refusing the directive due to insubordination, only for safety concerns. The fact that Captain Sullenberger gave this response doesn't necessarily mean it was due to being pressed for time.
Yeah exactly, and as a former air traffic controller I will add two things. Firstly, in a situation like this you don't want or need the pilot to give you any extra information because it wastes time and rarely achieves anything. "Can you use this as a solution?" "Unable." "Okay, we'll find another one." Secondly, in a situation like this pilots are taught to focus on keeping the plane in the air as the number one priority, with maintaining communication with the ground as the third priority at best. Keeping communication to one-word responses means the pilot doesn't have to talk with air traffic control so much and can focus on the more important tasks.
And then he followed it up with: we may end up in the Hudson.
Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. In that order.
Or as my instructor always phrased it; "In an emergency, just focus on flying the plane. Everything else is secondary."
He called the library to apologize for losing a book....
On accountability.....
after he saved *everyone* from a plane crash....
Ladies and gentlemen, we have found the most humble and honorable person to live.
Ever
You’re not wrong...
A book on safety and accountability, no less.
Mad respect
Well, it kinda sucks to be unable to return a book on accountability.
@@clray123 I bet you he is still a little upset about it.
"Attention passengers. You know that safety announcement you all ignore? Well we are actually going to use it today."
Lol
It’s not necessarily that we ignore it, it’s just that we’ve heard it a hundred times already.
😂😂😂
@@Poseidon650
Well I mean they've actually tested it, and even in simulations that people are entering into KNOWING it's going to test how they react in a plane crash.... They still ignore it and don't the follow instructions given. Not everyone of course, but... Way too many people.
Been a while since I watched the piece on it, I think it was CBC Marketplace where I saw it...
Edit: yea I think this was the video: ua-cam.com/video/qzX1X0rO8UA/v-deo.html
And THAT is why I always read the pamphlets
Would like to mention that any water landing, nevermind that of a river in the middle of New York, is extremely dangerous and difficult to perform. 9 time out of 10, it ends in the plane cartwheeling across the surface of the water (thanks to water tension) and killing everyone onboard. This really was a miracle
That's what really makes this astonishing that their was no loss of life. A crew of less experience may not have been able to pull this off
I could not believe it when they said no loss of life. I saw the plane looked to be still intact, people on the wings and emergency floats, and thought it would be a very low number. I didn't expect zero. Just wow.
I honestly think if he didn’t have fighter experience it would have turned bad.
@@Anna-Rose- What's astonishing about your comment is that you weren't aware of the incident. How did you manage to miss it ?
Surprised they put it in the passenger safety manuals then. Is there no better way to emergency land a plane than a method that kills everyone onboard 90% of the time?
"What a view of the Hudson today."
idk, let's get a closer look
For real though, thank you so much for posting this one. It's such an amazing event, in the literal sense of the word. I didn't even know Captain Sully checked the cabin twice while it was sinking for anyone left behind. That's so incredibly brave and heroic.
LMAOOO
Hahahahahahahahaha
🤣
This is a very different story when told from the geese's perspective.
Haha!! They were treated so bad 😂🤣😭😭
Oh you lol
“On this morning , 142 innocent geese lost their lives due to negligent air tower staff and faulty on plane radars”
😂😂😂
😂👍
NYer here - Sully's never gonna be forgotten in this city. It kinda goes without saying that plane crashes have some additional trauma around here, so having a miracle like this meant so much. His heroism is beyond words. Bless him forever.
Well said and 100% agree
I've spoken personally with the co-pilot. He is so humble. He will literally talk to anyone on his social medias about his experience. Great man.
These 2 guys saw it as all in a day's work. Very skilled and gentle men.
Both men were sporting fantastic soup strainers on the day of the accident, you know you are in safe hands if the pilot has a moustache. The bigger the better, and this flight had two of them!
Couldn't agree more. Jeff Skiles is awesome!
@@KatShoebox Is that what Sully calls his 'tache?
@@krashd Nope, that was the name of his co-pilot. :)
That dude in the wheelchair must have been terrified when they crash landed in water. What a nightmare with an amazing outcome
As a person in a wheelchair I remember that on the news and I was very impressed with the captain checking twice making sure the person in a wheelchair got off safely.
Whenever I watch these videos, I just assume that I would probably be the one to die in that situation as I’d just get left behind (given that airlines can rarely coordinate the information that you need help to get on the plane, and that you still need your wheelchair at the other end) but I was shocked when I heard that this one actually had a wheelchair user on board.
Perhaps they used the aisle chair to move them down to the door with the raft and pushed ‘em out, or someone was kind enough to carry them out to safety.
I guess if you’re going to be in a plane crash when you can’t move from your seat, you’d want it to be this one!
@@anastasiaromanot6626 they must have carried them, as they don't keep aisle chairs on board aircraft (I'm ex cabin crew).
@Bri Ham I'm not sure how much good that would do, since it would be very, very easy for them to tip over if there's more weight at the top, but they certainly could issue life vests or inflatable straps that could go around the person's chest maybe?
But you're right, someone's probably already come up with a solution
Gotta say, after all the mass horrors on this channel this was a real nice palette cleanser
Palate cleanser, as in food that resets your palate. A palette is what a painter uses to mix colors.
nothing like having a good clean palette
@@DeadAndAliveCat good bot
"Just this once, EVERYBODY lives!"
its still a fascinating horror... for the canada geese.
After seeing a doco about this and the physics of landing on water like this, I am 100% convinced that the reason this flight landed so perfectly was because it was cushioned by Captain Sully' gigantic testicles.
@@drt1605 Wow, thanks for the info. Facinating
@@kaileim970 And baseless
Good an explanation as any!
@@FLOSSYTREADWELL what is baseless about it?
I’m surprised he didn’t need his own life raft for those gigantic balls of steel 😳
"the engines had ingested 1 bird each"
this is a great sentence
*At least one bird each
@@Crazyjn They were very hungry engines!
It's accurate and proper terminology, to be fair.
I’m a flight attendant and this was by far the greatest miracle we had ever witnessed. We cheered and cheered knowing all were alive Captain “Sully” was definitely a hero. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
i am. so happy that the captain didn't pull a Costa Concordia.
Edit: or an Oceanos. Don't forget about that one.
mf where would he go-
Exactly what I was thinking.
What was he gonna do, fucking jump?
@The Ol’ Babaganoush lmaoo yall are too much 😭
@The Ol’ Babaganoush it's easily done one minute you're on a cruise ship next your on a lifeboat
the library book being about safety is honestly so funny, it obviously fulfilled it's purpose, even if it was "killed" in the process
That made me wonder whether any personal items were recovered, so I looked it up. It looks like passengers were compensated for any losses and then had anything found in the Hudson returned.
Book took one for the team.
Man. Turns out book are important
When Tom Hanks stars in a film about you, you know you've done something remarkable
Apparently Sully wasn't to happy about how they portrayed the regulating airliner authority, they dramatized the "prosecution" and made them look evil.
@@jamesshore3191 yeah they made the NTSB investigators the "bad cops" in part of it. I'm guessing you've seen it, but in the beginning they show a possible "alternate ending" if they'd opted for something other than the Hudson, it's a chilling horror.
No doubt. Like that kid who got big.
@@jamesshore3191
Indeed. He said the NTSB was nothing but professional and it was their job to examine ALL avenues. But “Hollywood needs a villain”. Which to me reeks of incompetance on the writer’s part. Did Castaway need a human villain? Did Apollo 13? Did the Martian? You don’t need a villain when the situation itself is the villain.
@@ErzengelDesLichtes "The situation itself is the villain."
I totally need to remember this sentence. It's a great answer to the question "But who is the villain?"
Even with a topic as widely covered as The Miracle on the Hudson, you still managed to include details I haven't heard before like the waterlogged library book. Mad props!
Ditto
I thought this episode would be about the horror of dead mutilated geese.
That's not what "goose it" means.
Same here! I watch all the airline disaster type shows and this is one i never get tired of watching. I didn't think there were any details left to learn after seeing so many different accounts.
Right!
A goose watching this: "omg thats so terrible"
This sully is a hitler to geese and we call him a hero.
Perspective is everything!
@@suspicioustumbleweed4760 uhhhhhhhhh ackshually bird strikes are a zionist conspiracy
This is featured on the goose version of UA-cam’s fascinating horror channel wherein the end they talk about how this disaster led to many innovations to prevent disasters to geese from these unpredictable metal birds in the future.
teck-nick-lee
The fact that his first interview was to a school newspaper and that he personally apologized to his library for the ruined book, capitalizes how pure and heroic he is….just wow. What a fantastic human being. ♥️
We got health and safety updates no one had to die for.
WE DID IT, GUYS! WE DID IT! \o/
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Brings a tear to the eye, doesn't it?
RIP to the blended geese who died for our sins
@@BorderlineBinge I've got no doubts that their sacrificial geese juice is what gave that plane some wangs
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"What do we say to the God of Death?"
"Not today" - Captain Sullenberger
The fact the captain went through the plane twice to make sure non was left behind, is golden. But to call his local library to apologize for, accidentally drowning a book he borrowed. What a legend man.
Imagine if the library didn’t waive that guys overdue book fees LOL
It would only be cost of replacing the book, 15 to 20 dollars
hell, if they had not waived it, I would have paid for it.
@@SoulDelSol I need to go to your library. At our local public library, if you don't return the book and have accrued $100 in fees, you pay the $100 even if the book was only valued at $20.
@@SoulDelSol Unless it was a textbook... From what I hear about American textbooks he's lucky he didn't have to get a second mortgage to pay for a replacement.
@@dmanvell Yep, you're right. Buying textbooks is painfully expensive.
“We’re going to be in the Hudson” sounds so uncertain if they’ll be in the water or on top of the water. Such heroes!
The most heart breaking thing to realize is they didn't know either. They didn't know whether the plane would sink or float, if it would hold together or break apart.
They were just trying to make the recovery - whether it was a live rescue or recovering bodies - easier.
He probably wanted rescuers to get ready to fish people hopefully still alive from the water. For a plane of that size to stay in one piece after collition with water was pretty much unheard of...
At the time, there had never been a successful emergency landing on water by a passenger jet.
This is an incredible story and that pilot is a hero, as well as every other crew member, but can we all appreciate for a moment all the people that took their boats or ferries and went to help without knowing whether that plane was going to explode or something else horrible? This is a feelgood story of the highest caliber.
Except for the geese. RIP geese.
If you know anything about geese, you know they fully deserved it, call it karma :D
@@theashenfox what a cruel thing to say.
Imagine the geese stories told to future generations: "We were just flying along, minding our own business, when suddenly this monster came out of nowhere and ate your uncle and grandma.... "
@@knightogourdhey, man. Geese are assholes.
Imagine being on a ferry and then seeing a goddamn airbus land in the river.
"ladies and gentlemen, if you look to your right you can see the empire state building, and if you look to your left you can see an Airbus 330 crash landing into the Hudson."
This captain made me dream to become a pilot as a kid. Sadly my eyes didn't allow that to happen but I'll always have the greatest respect for this man!
"As a kid"? What are you? 19 now? lol
@@orvil9223 21. And definitely not working anywhere close to aviation sadly xD
@@ContentConfessional working towards making film. Found a love for documentaries and who knows, maybe I'll be able to make some about aviation too :)
@@oceanstaiga5928 you might not be able to fly a plane but you can perhaps fly drones for videography for your documentaries or just for filming in general.
@@NinjaTyler that’s definitely a dream of mine, would love to shoot footage with drones one day :) maybe that’s a good combination of flying and videography indeed!
A book on balancing safety and accountability...that feels like a PERFECT book for him to be reading before the disaster. Sullenberger is an amazing man who deserves the hero status he's received.
i remember seeing this in the news. the pilots are heroes.
i can’t imagine how horrifying this must’ve been for all of them but the captain’s quick thinking saved all their lives. props to the pilots and the crew for keeping their heads
Their still studying the planes data to this day.
How you I pronounce your username?
It was luck. Neither pilot knew what to do, so they landed where they dropped.
Not just the pilots also the flight crew, everyone pulled their weight that day.
Props to the pilots... Pun intended?😉
"Got any ideas?"
"Yeah, don't fuck it up."
🤣
Got any ideas? Yeah but it's too late to call in sick now.
I remember listening to the cockpit recordings. Hearing him say “we’ll be in the Hudson” so calmly and matter of fact was... well I’m certain if it were me I would’ve said it a little differently haha.
WE'RE GOING INTO THE F IN RIVER!!!
Panic kills
Aviate. Navigate. Communicate. In that order.
whispered aside....... do these planes float Sully?
I love the letter put out by US Airways
“Sorry your plane crashed, we’ll try to do better next time” 👍
I can’t help but hear REX, the StarSpeed pilot on Star Tours at Disneyland
This whole story almost brings me to tears when I think about how well it was handled. It still boggles the mind to think that not one person died.
This shows that America is capable if we had competent leadership in a crisis. Unfortunately we had a replay of the titanic with our oh glorious supreme leader, the el fascisto mango moron when it came to the 2020 pandemic
@@MadKlown LOL I can’t believe you think that, look at what’s been happening!
Can you imagine if somebody had a heart attack and died there? That would've been so tragic. You all survive thanks to the skills of the crew, but one person dies from the terror.
LOL - OK, 'well' handled - not perfectly handled - they failed to close a vent that would have helped the plane stay afloat - and it would have done if someone hadn't opened the door and let water in !
Indeed it was miraculous. If you watch the full documantary on it, there were many decisions made and many problems they overcame to make it the success it was. Probably the best ever actions of a pilot.
As far as incidents go, this probably tops the list. 2nd - was the rescue of the Chilean miners trapped below ground for 22 days.
I’m a plane nerd, and this is one of my favourite aviation stories (along with the Gimli Glider, British Airways Flight 009, TACA Flight 110), the calm attitude from the pilots, the amazing crew resource management, the fact Sully managed a water landing without the plane cartwheeling, checking the cabin twice to make sure nobody was left behind, and most importantly, everyone survived. It’s one hell of a story.
British airways 009 is the one where they learned you can't fly through a volcano, right? I love that story! Its the perfect example of check, check, and recheck. And then check again for good measure. Can you imagine if they had just given up and accepted their fate? There was no reason to believe any additional attempts to restart any of the 4 engines would be successful and yet...like a miracle, all 4 engines roared back to life as if nothing was ever wrong! Talk about a Rollercoaster of emotions!
@@wabi_sabi_vida-- Speedbird 9 is also when volcanic ash was invisible on radar.
The pilot on that flight, sorry his name escapes me, is an incredibly skilled and heroic man.
This is a textbook emergency water ditching and it was carried out to the letter, it’s amazing to see
ALMOST textbook. They did make one mistake, although it was down to time pressure and the way the emergency procedures were written: The cabin pressurization 'ditching' switch was never set. When enabled, it locks off all the cabin pressurization dump valves and regulation valves to make the aircraft as watertight as possible. This is the reason the aircraft started to sink by the tail, and why the rear exits were unusable for evacuation.
One hopes that the emergency manual rewrite makes this step harder to miss in a crunch.
@@tanall5959 I never knew that! But the aircraft didn’t sink regardless. I remember seeing it still floating (though mostly submerged) near a pier in Manhattan.
@@Sashazur Thats the reason. The pressurization dump valves and control valves are located on the aft pressure bulkhead. The cargo compartments flooded from the rear, and all that was left was a big air bubble trapped in the forward cargo compartment to keep the aircraft afloat.
@@tanall5959 One of the problems was too many of the checklists were written expecting more time to deal with them. He did mention the rewrite of the engine checklist, but it wasn't the only one modified. The pilots just had so little time to follow all the lines.
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Technically not a mistake they weren’t able to finish the ditching checklist because they didn’t have enough time.
Additionally the captain turning on the APU before the checklist suggested it what is extremely important to the survival of the aircraft.
I'm a native new yorker and oh my God this was such a big day for us in the city. you hear plane crash in NYC and your butthole turns inside out. we weren't that far from 9/11 and for a while people were sure it was terrorism, but when the real story got out the entire city embraced this event. it was nothing short of a miracle.
they were peace full geese
I remember another airliner that went down over NYC....only a few weeks after 9/11. One of the people on board, had managed to escape from one of the twin towers.
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@@195511SM American Airlines flight 587 is what you may be referring to. But that was caused by pilot error leading to structural failure of the stabilizer.
@@195511SM and God was like "Fuck you in particular"
"Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once, everybody LIVES!"
"You were fantastic, absolutely fantastic! And you know what, so was I"
Everyone except those geese.
Scroll down deep enough and you'll find a whovian!
I was gonna comment this!! Thought of the Doctor halfway through the video
I'm more horrified that this was almost 11 years ago.
Right!
I know, right? Time flies.
F
More like 12 years ago. It's almost 2021.
@@jeremiahallyn4603 Lol, maths are fun
Landing a large, commercial aircraft safely on a runway in good weather takes great skill. Gliding a crippled one to a safe landing in a river takes extraordinary skill. One dip of a wing into the water could send it into a spin that could break it up.
Exactly. Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 did just that after it was hijacked and it ran out of fuel. ua-cam.com/video/KCuh_2M4o3A/v-deo.html
Airbus deserves a bit of credit for this, too. That the plane didn't disintegrate when the damaged engine pods hit the water is incredible - plus the impact on the fuselage. Same with losing both engines in such a manner with full fuel but no significant fire.
And especially that they actually had water survival kit though it wasn't required for the flight.
So much inspiring work all around!
Imagine captaining a nearly deadly flight, saving everyone on board, and one of your main concerns being a library book you had checked out. This man is nothing but wholesome.
The other thing to be impressed by is the perfect role played by the slightly less experience pilot. There was no ego or unnecessary trauma stuff involved. He Stepped aside and did what he could. I think it's also really a sign of humility that when he had a second from the many, many things he could think of to do, the life-saving captain asked for his copilot's ideas and input. Just like with the library book, smart people are always learning however they can, even from folks who know a bit less overall that they do on a topic.
The best people in anything are never pretenders.
While he did have more flight hours, he had less experience piloting an Airbus. However, he was no doubt a good pilot, as he had been flying since 16 years old. He was approximately 50yrs old when Flight 1549 ditched in the Hudson.
Cockpit resource management at its absolute finest
This also left First Officer Skiles free to pay attention to the altitude and airspeed once he determined that the engines wouldn't have enough time to spool up were further restart attempts successful. Since he was aware that water makes it harder to judge depth and distance, he started calling out altitude and airspeed so Sully could focus on flying the plane.
It is protocol in airplanes, that the Captain takes controll in such situations. I recommend to watch the video by "Mentour Pilot" on UA-cam about this landing, to get a better understanding of the work inside of the cockpit.
Still, both of them did everything correctly and therefore, Skiles also deserves a lot of respect.
The second most positive result of the Miracle on the Hudson is that the library waived the fee for Sully's book. Libraries usually put your head on a platter if you lose or damage a book.
I lost a book back in 1999... they won't let me borrow until I pay 250$! .. it was a bloody paperback ffs
🤣
Be glad they haven't sent the library policeman after you.
@@sarasmr4278 haha....Seinfeld reference; recognised and respected!
I think the library was too busy being in awe of what happened here. That and you'd call down an angry mob if the library decided not waive.
There's actually a movie about this called Sully:Miracle on the Hudson, and Tom Hanks plays Sullenberger. It's a good watch IMO.
Great movie. Tom Hanks did a great job. Highly recommended
Clint Eastwood directed the film. He had some of the actual rescuers (ferry captains, emergency personnel) play themselves in the film. I think that was a great way to honor them.
The movie is pretty good, but all the NTSB scenes were pretty much works of fiction. There wasn’t a moment where the NTSB officials ever doubted whether Sully made the right call.
@@Dylan_Sterling That was the major complaint about the film. I guess he had to have some sort of conflict in there to add to the drama. That's Hollywood for you.
@@Dylan_Sterling Hollywood drama
As a Canadian I would like to say on behalf of all Canadian geese...I'm sorry.
♥️♥️
Us Canadians might be nice but our geese aren’t
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Maybe its because our geese are assholes that we are nice. They can fly but they choose to walk across the street and hold up traffic. When they fly they end up in jet engines and go south and crap on golf courses in Florida.
@@lookabomba32 I bet the geese attacked that plane on purpose because they saw humans on board and were like “AYO LET’S CRASH THIS SHIT!”. Wouldn’t put it past them tbh
Canadian geese wouldn't be sorry at all ...
I just realized this is the only UA-cam channel where I've watched all the content and every new video soon after it's uploaded.
And still craving more...
Me too!!
@Miss Understanding It's the details too. Not to pick everything apart and analyze it with a magnifying glass, but the interesting subject matter, the pleasantness of the narrator's voice, his style of delivery, his choice of words, the style and volume of the background music, all of these different elements balance out so well. They are assets that compliment the overall viewing experience, whereas on many other UA-cam documentaries one or more of those elements is severely lacking or out of balance, acting as a detriment to the overall experience.
Same
🤜🤛same
Funfact: He was born in Denison texas which is my hometown. I moved away at 18 but when I visited a month ago on the side of a building on mainstreet they had a painted memorial of him
My hometown is Denison as well but that's a mural of Dwight Eisenhower (He was born here), I currently live here and see it frequently. But Sullenberger did come back to Denison after the event, via his wiki, "On June 6, 2009, Sullenberger returned to his childhood hometown of Denison, Texas, to participate in the town's D-Day celebration and to give the commencement address for his alma mater, Denison High School, marking the 40th anniversary of his own graduation from the school."
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I'd love to see Sewol, it's so tragic ☹ hope they all rest in peace.
- Estonia sinking
- JAL 123
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The Doña Paz disaster is horrifying.
I was thinking of Sewol too.
- Graniteville chlorine trainer disaster
I couldn’t believe at the time they scrutinized the captain’s actions by utilizing a simulator under non threatening controlled conditions. Ridiculous.
It's just standard procedure, they didn't mean anything by it, they always investigate accidents. I watched a movie about this case and it showed the aviation safety board as monsters when in reality they were just investigating to find out what happened and how can this be prevented in the future.
The Movie was very harsh on the NTSB... here's their actual reaction: ua-cam.com/video/b1fPr1uzs8s/v-deo.html
@@JE-zl6uy Not denying that, but that was the Aviation subcommittee of congress (aka congressmen/women doing the speaking), not the NTSB.
They do what they gotta do
People are dumb 🙄🙄🙄
The term "hero" gets bandied about in the media...so many times inaccurately. Capt. Sullenberger is the DEFINITION of a hero and his crew acted heroically.
That must be a weird experience, standing on the wing of a Boeing in the middle of the Hudson river
It was an Airbus but yeah, pretty fucking surreal
Thinking. “I ain’t paying for this”
If it was summer, would people have been jumping off with a cannonball or backflip to celebrate their good fortune?
A weird and cold experience
@@denilla8034 not in one of the most polluted waterways in the world and certainly not if the plane was leaking jet fuel
Cant lie I read the title as the first flight in 1549... I thought it’d be a horror story of the first attempt at flying.. I’m too high for this
😂 somebody trying to test davinci's inventions like his wings . Thatd be the shit!
me too! watching this channel after a zootie is a pastime of a few of us I think 😂
LOL
@caveman lovesmoke , watch "Hudson Hawk."
If ever I’m feeling down, I remember this story and I instantly feel better. Such an amazing display of skill from everyone.
Birds: *exist*
Jet engines: *I N G E S T*
"Finally, some good fucking food"
Poor birds. All the things we do to animals across this world. None of them are safe
@@penyarol83 oh shut up vegan donut
@@SeveralGnomes this comment is blursed
@@cyruss6536 dude, they said nothing about being vegan
Planes like the A320 are designed to continue to fly even if an engine failed. A dual engine failure (which happened here) is incredibly rare. Some ended well (Air Transat 236), some not so much (Ethiopian 961). The incredible cool-headedness and calmness of the flight crew was frankly the thing that saved the flight.
Also, having seen the movie, Cpt Sully looked more like Clint Eastwood than Tom Hanks.
Is it the same for A319?
@@drasiella yeah
@@drasiella
Mechanically the A320 family (A318, A319, A320 and A321), is more or less identical, so yes. Modern aircraft in general are designed to stay in the air after one engine failure.
I was just a kid when this happened, and I never questioned that Captain Sully was a hero, but I never quite grasped how horrible that situation could have been. Watching your channel has definitely made me so aware of what disaster can happen when those with authority fail to keep a level head. Now as an adult, I am in total awe of this and can say no more than Captain Sully is a goddamn hero.
I'm sorry but you are incorrect about the Co-pilot. Actually the Co-pilot had slightly more flying hours than Captain Sullenberger, and had himself been a Captain but was reduced to flying as a first officer after staff cuts with the airline (quite a common occurrence). He did not have as many hours flying the Airbus 320, but it is quite incorrect to say he had no flying experience on that aircraft type. He was VERY experienced and Sullenberger has repeatedly stated that his Copilot was absolutely invaluable and key to the successful outcome of the emergency. Both men are heroes of the highest order and an example to us all..
Skyles had 37 hours on the 320, but this was his first flight as pilot flying.
@@Wolfshead009 Really? So of the 37 hours on type, none were as Pilot Flying? That seems odd..
@@felixthecat3n2 Probably more an official designation that he was not delegated full control of the aircraft as opposed to not actually flying it.
@@Wolfshead009 May I ask where the information on his hours/pilot flying etc came from? Commercial airliners are crewed by two pilots. One is designated as the Captain (also known as the Pilot in Command) the other acts as the First Officer. Both will share the actual hands on flying. Typically, one will fly the outbound leg, and the other will fly the return. Whether actually actively flying the aircraft or not, the Captain is always in Command, and has ultimate authority over the operation of the aircraft. I am very surprised to hear that, having spent 37 hours (as you say) on the A320, none of those 37 hours were as handling pilot (Pilot Flying). It doesn't seem credible to me.. Under normal circumstances, one would expect him to have spent around half of that time as Pilot Flying and the other half Pilot Not Flying.. ?
@@felixthecat3n2 Wikipedia, sourced from the NTSB report. "The first officer had 37 hours in A320 airplanes, all as SIC." www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR1003.pdf
Skiles never gets enough credit honestly. IIRC he was on the Mayday episode and gave a new perspective on things.
The FAs have very interesting stories to tell as well and never get credit for what they did in the evacuation. At least one of them never flew again as a result.
One of the factors that helped was as he was new to this aircraft type, he was fresh out of training and knew where to find the right checklists.
I feel so fucking horrible for laughing but why did he have to phrase it as “Both engines, the pilots swiftly realized, had ingested at least one bird each”
WHY DID HE SAY *INGESTED* HOW DO I EXPLAIN WHY IM LAUGHING.
I immediately had this picture in my head of the airplane going "Oh, birds! nom nom nom", so you're not the only one who giggled at the phrasing.
It’s ok to laugh, nobody died
He used the word correctly. You may not have personally heard the word “ingested” used this way but it is a proper usage. Below is an abbreviated definition of the word “ingest” (ie; ingested, ingestion)
“Ingestion is a common route taken by pathogenic organisms and poisons entering the body. Ingestion can also refer to a mechanism picking up something and making it enter an internal hollow of that mechanism, e.g. "a grille was fitted to prevent the pump from ingesting driftwood".
"Inhaled" might be a tad more accurate!
That struck me as funny too.
I never get tired of hearing about this story, even though I've heard it thousands of times.
Absolutely! I can watch thousands of videos of people dying. And yet, this one brings tears to my eyes.
This The happiest disaster you covered so far
As every other account in the Fascinating Horror series leads to inescapable death, I feel like this sole story is like the end of that old Doctor Who episode where The Doctor says triumphantly "Just this once Rose, everybody lives!" This incident is utterly amazing!
This captain was bad a$$ he was so smart..I remember watching that after it was in the river, couldn't believe how well he landed it under the circumstances. ❤
After all, he was an army pilot. He might have seen more maneuvers similar to these but with working engines.
Agreed. It's a miracle that not a single person lost their life.
Yes...the key was the exact angle the pilot "landed" the plane when it hit the water
Upon doing further research, he was the top pilot of his class, and eventually got to fly the F-4D Phantom II
@@Tigershark_3082 wow awesome..a true hero
This episode is like in Doctor Who when the Doctor shouts “Everybody lives!”
“Everybody lives, Rose! Just this once! Everybody lives!!” 9th Doctor to Rose in “The Doctor Dances”
Are you my mummy?
There better be such a thing as extra heaven, Sullenberger’s earned himself a place there. This man has a titanium set of balls, good god.
Super Heaven!
Mega Heaven
Yes, he gets your share, OP!
I think, regular heaven is enough. After all: He should be able to live the after life with his loved ones, who hopefully never have to be in a situation like that and thus can't become legends like him.
My favorite part of this is that he granted his first interview to his daughters high school newspaper. That, ladies and gentlemen, is punk as fuck.
He's a great guy all round
I love how the people who were able too, went and helped as much as they could. The thought of the community coming together to save everyone is heartwarming,
New York city can be amazing like that
This came just a few years after 9/11. Many of the ships captains had also helped evacuate people on 9/11!
Got to hear Sully speak when I worked at the Johnson Space Center. Fascinating story and a very humble hero.
"In this story, everyone survives..." Everyone but two BIRDS!
Look at the damage to the nose of the plane, there were a lot of Geese who got more than just concussion that day.
I think it was four? I thought he said it in the video, maybe not lol
There's a film called sully and an episode of air crash investigation(mayday) on the crash
"Geese can be troublesome." - fortune cookie from the Simpsons
I'm afraid you're mistaken on that one as it was actually the prophecy for Untitled Goose Game.
When you so gangsta that Tom Hanks plays you in a block buster movie about your heroic actions
If you haven’t listened to the actual ATC audio from the flight, there’s a great video posted with it, taken from some local US TV news station. It made the hair on my arms stand up when you hear Captain Sullenberger reply “Unable.”
This is one of my favorite stories! Thank you for covering a story where no one died. Sometimes it gets a little depressing hearing about death. This is such a wonderful story!
that dude is a saint
not only did he bring the plane down saving everyone
he also checked for people multiple times in a plane filling up with ice cold water
and then he rang the fekin library to be like sorry a book of yours got lost
Great video! You should do a video about the Utsunomiya Hospital Incident. Its a really tragic story that highlights the poor treatment of the mentally ill in Japan
When was this?
@@MASTEROFEVIL 1983 i think?
@@Questionable_Content What exactly happened?
@@MASTEROFEVIL a mental hospital got investigated after staff beat 2 patients to death when they overheard that they were planning on telling their families how poor the conditions there were. It was discovered that 220 other patients had been killed at the hospital and were given illegal autopsies. Worst part is the hospital had made a deal to give the brains of the dead patients away to be dissected without anyone knowing about it. The director was fired and silently rehired and the worst punishment anyone got was like a year of jail for a systematic murder of mentally ill people
@@Questionable_Content Good lord. Is there any newspaper articles or anywhere for more information?
It’s cathartic to have a story every once in a while where everyone survives. Thank you for sharing.
A close family friend of mine was one of the 155 passengers on this flight. He was one of the very last people off the plane as they were evacuating to the boats. I remember seeing the news report and hearing that our family friend was on the flight. Amazing that not a single person lost their lives due to the actions of Sully.
This was nearly 12 years ago?? Damn, where does the time go...
Time flies by....unlike the plane that day.
Right out the window.
Watch it fly by as it ticks life away
To fast
Death: OK, folks, this is it!
Capt. Sullenberger: Not today ...
They could've used him in the first Final Destination! 🤣
Falling with style
I love how your pfp looks like a low budget version of this channel's pfp
@@madeliner1682 Haha! I never noticed that before. It was just a pic I took in Florida.
It's so great seeing competent and responsible staff for a change (compared to the other videos i mean). They did everything they could and it paid off enormously this time. I love this.
Also, their dialogue right before impact sounds like a badass out of a movie 😂
That part made me chuckle. I would NOT have been that calm! 🙈🤣
Making this comment again, please do one on the Ozone Disco fire that happened in the philippines. Very tragic and more people should hear about it's history
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I love your name too!
I love your name also! 🤗