Captain Sully's and other pilots' calmness in the face of danger

Brut America

On the 10th anniversary of the "Miracle on the Hudson", we look back on Captain Sully's — and other pilots' — calmness in the face of life-threatening danger.

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00:00If we can get it for you, do you want to try to land runway 13?

00:03We may end up in the Hudson.

00:05Can you land runway 1 at Teterboro?

00:07We can't do it.

00:09Okay, which runway would you like at Teterboro?

00:11We're going to be in the Hudson.

00:16Southwest 1380, I understand your emergency, let me know when you want to go in.

00:20Yeah, we have a part of the aircraft missing, so we're going to need to slow down a bit.

00:24Could you have the medical meet us there on the runway as well?

00:28We've got injured passengers.

00:31Injured passengers, okay, and are you, is your airplane physically on fire?

00:35No, it's not on fire, but part of it's missing.

00:38They said there was a hole and someone went out.

00:42Medical emergency, captain is incapacitated.

00:46Request handling for runway 10, landing.

00:50Houston, 550, Turkish Approach, roger, altimeters 30, 205.

00:54Alright, departure, Delta 1063, we have declared an emergency engine failure on the right engine.

01:00Request official return back to 13 right.

01:03Delta 1063, alright, just maintain 2,000 and turn right heading 270.

01:08We've just lost a lot of our instruments.

01:10We'd like to go somewhere and hold.

01:12We'd like a sector place.

01:14United 224, Boston Approach, roger, fly heading 270, maintain 4,000.

01:19We've lost pressurization also, no problem here, but won't want to go much higher.

01:26Cleared to land 22F, United 224.

01:29Delta 2116, we're declaring emergency, we need to come back to on-land.

01:33We've got about four hours of fuel on board, 152 souls on board.

01:36We've got a yaw problem and we're having a little trouble controlling the airplane.

01:40United 4, we're going to have to level at 5, we're having a flight control malfunction.

01:46We're going to declare an emergency and plan to return to LA, but we'll need an extended final.

01:50We've got a smoke issue with the airplane.

01:53497, we are declaring an emergency.

01:56497, we've lost all our instruments right now.

02:08We'll go ahead and declare the emergency.

02:10There are 50 people on board, 3 crew members.

02:13We wouldn't like pretty little red lights waiting for us when we get on the ground.

02:17The landing gear is down and locked in the locked position.

02:20If you could have a cup of Tim Hortons waiting for me on the ground, the day will become better.

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