January 15 ,2009 the morning of my big flight from La Guardia Airport to Charlotte Douglas airport. I woke up this morning getting ready for my flight and said goodbye to my wife and kids.¨Goodbye Kyle and Lindsey I love you!¨ Once I got to Laguardia I sat down at the food market and had breakfast. When my flight was soon to leave I went to the plane and got into the cockpit ready to fly. My Copilot Jeff Skiles boarded the plane and we were ready for takeoff. My passengers and Flight Attendants boarded and got seated. I exclaimed ¨good morning ladies and gentlemen strap in your seat belts and get ready for the flight¨.
Then we started to Takeoff. It wasn't even 3-4 minutes in the air when we suddenly struck a flock of Canadian geese that caused both engines of the Airbus A320 to both stop working. ¨uh this your pilot speaking, it seems that we have struck a flock of birds we are working to fix it now ¨ I stated. We were starting to descend altitudes at a fast pace. I contacted the Air Traffic Control Center and told them what had happened and they told me to fly back to Laguardia. I knew from my 40 years of experience that I couldn't make it back to the airport . So I decided to land in the Hudson river and not risk all 150 lives aboard this flight today. I descend Low and landed …show more content…
They replied back ¨ we are sending rescue boats to the scene now¨. The boats arrived and they started to take the passengers one by one off of the plane.A passenger on the plane said ¨thank you captain sully I am so thankful that I am alive¨ ¨anything for my passengers¨ I exclaimed. There were no injuries except some minor injuries such as a laceration in of the flight attendants leg. Some of the passengers suffered from hypothermia because of how frigid the water was. All 155 people made it safely off of flight 1549. I was proud of what I had accomplished and proud that I saved all of these lives today
Then we started to Takeoff. It wasn't even 3-4 minutes in the air when we suddenly struck a flock of Canadian geese that caused both engines of the Airbus A320 to both stop working. ¨uh this your pilot speaking, it seems that we have struck a flock of birds we are working to fix it now ¨ I stated. We were starting to descend altitudes at a fast pace. I contacted the Air Traffic Control Center and told them what had happened and they told me to fly back to Laguardia. I knew from my 40 years of experience that I couldn't make it back to the airport . So I decided to land in the Hudson river and not risk all 150 lives aboard this flight today. I descend Low and landed …show more content…
They replied back ¨ we are sending rescue boats to the scene now¨. The boats arrived and they started to take the passengers one by one off of the plane.A passenger on the plane said ¨thank you captain sully I am so thankful that I am alive¨ ¨anything for my passengers¨ I exclaimed. There were no injuries except some minor injuries such as a laceration in of the flight attendants leg. Some of the passengers suffered from hypothermia because of how frigid the water was. All 155 people made it safely off of flight 1549. I was proud of what I had accomplished and proud that I saved all of these lives today