Money Today Reporter Eun Lee | 2024.01.15 05:30
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Rescue workers secure US Airways Flight 1549, which was floating on water after it crashed into the Hudson River in New York City on January 15, 2009./AFPBBNews=News 1 January 15, 2009. A plane carrying 150 landed of passengers and 5 crew members in a hurry on the calm Hudson river in New York, USA. Because all engines had stopped, it could have resulted in a major disaster, but everyone was safe. It was ‘Miracle on the Hudson’.
At approximately 3:25 PM on this day, when the weather was almost cloudless, US Airways Flight 1549 departed from LaGuardia Airport in New York, USA, and headed to Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina.
A goose feather emerged from the left engine of US Airways Flight 1549, which made an emergency landing on the Hudson River in New York, USA, on January 15, 2009. This supports the fact that both engines lost power after the plane collided with a flock of birds./AFPBBNews=News 1 The problem occurred two minutes after take off. The plane which was flying at a height of 859 meters suddenly collided with a flock of geese, and because of this collision, the engine of both planes stopped at the same time. Flames erupted from the engine with a loud roar, and the smell of fuel began to emanate. All engines stopped and the plane lost power and was slowly falling.
The captain of this plane was Chesley Sullenberger (aged 57 at the time), a former US Air Force fighter pilot, and a veteran with a total flight time of 19,663 hours.
When a problem occurred with the plane, Captain Sullenberger tried to return to LaGuardia Airport where he had started. However, due to the low altitude, it was impossible to turn back or land at nearby Teterboro Airport. It was an emergency situation where the plane could have crashed if it had lost power and been forced to change direction while it was gliding.
Captain Sullenberger, who was gliding along the Hudson River, told the LaGuardia Airport controller, “We’re going to be in the Hudson.”
The air traffic controller who heard this was embarrassed and could not continue speaking for a moment, and then asked for a treasury, saying, “I’m sorry, but please say it again.” The controller then tried to find another landing site, saying, “There’s also Newark Airport,” but radio contact with the plane was lost.
On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549, which made an emergency landing on the Hudson River in New York, was caught on CCTV in a nearby port. Four minutes after the emergency landing at 8:25 am on this day, passengers on the wing of the plane were waiting for rescue (yellow circle in the picture). A commuter ferry on the Hudson River can also be seen approaching for rescue (red circle in the photo below right.) / Photograph = YouTube channel video ‘AIRBOYD’ In a situation where nothing is possible, the a captain decides to use his talents and make an emergency landing on the Hudson River.
According to the contents of the communication contained in the black box, he quietly asked for the first officer’s opinion, saying, “Do you have any ideas?” Passengers were warned by an in-flight announcement to “prepare for a collision.” The passengers who heard this began to get upset, screaming and praying with their heads bent between their knees.
And at 3:31 pm The plane landed on the waters of the Hudson River at 230 kilometers per hour. All 155 passengers and crew were safe. In a moment between life and death, the captain’s calm judgment of the situation, his flying skills, and the calm response of the passengers and crew shone through.
Immediately after landing, Captain Sullenberger opened the cockpit door and issued an evacuation order, and flight attendants helped the passengers to leave.
There was no major damage to the plane which made an emergency landing, but it gradually began to sink into the river. Passengers escaped from the plane and stood on the sinking wing of the plane, waiting for rescue.
Captain Vincent Lombardi of the Thomas Jefferson, the Hudson River commuter ferry between Manhattan and New Jersey, saw a plane floating on the river making an emergency landing and immediately notified the Coast Guard and rushed to the crash site. the Coast Guard, etc. He was dispatched and took part in the rescue.
As the weather was cold at -6 degrees Celsius, the situation was urgent to complete the rescue operation before the passengers developed hypothermia. One crew member suffered a serious leg injury, and 78 passengers were treated for minor injuries and hypothermia, but there were no deaths.
Experts analyzed that “there were no injuries because the pilot made a quick judgment and reduced the impact by landing the plane stably and horizontally on the water.”
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Captain Sullenberger saved 155 people at the centre… “Thanks to 42 years of experience and knowledge”
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Captain Chesley Sullenberg of US Airways Flight 1549, which crash-landed on the Hudson River in New York, USA on January 15, 2009, appeared on CBS on February 9, 2009, one month after the crash./AFPBBNews=News 1 Sullenberger achieved a miracle The captain emerged as a national hero. This event came to be called the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’.
“The pilot did a great job of landing the plane safely in the Hudson River and evacuating all 155 passengers and crew,” said New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at the time. “He looked inside the plane twice to make sure all the passengers had evacuated.” He approved.
One passenger said, “There was a man at the entrance to the plane whose number passengers called every time they evacuated, and I later found out he was the pilot of the crashed plane.”
Captain Sullenberger is said to have kept his cool even immediately after being rescued to the point where his tie was not disturbed.
According to reports at the time, a New York police officer said of Captain Sullenberger, who was waiting at a passenger terminal near the Hudson River shortly after being rescued, “He was sitting with his hat on, sipping coffee, acted as if nothing had happened,” and one passenger said, “It was quiet.” “He is the embodiment of Ham.”
Afterwards, in an interview with AARP Magazine, Captain Sullenberger explained the secret to making a perfect emergency landing by comparing it to ‘savings’.
He said, “For 42 years, I have been making small but regular deposits in the bank of experience, education, and training. And on January 15th, what I had saved so far was enough, and I was able to receive a large sum of money.” It was a humble answer that said he was able to create a miracle with the experience and knowledge he had accumulated over 42 years of flying.
Poster for the film ‘Sully: Miracle on the Hudson.’ /Photo = Warner Bros. Korea Co., Ltd. This accident was made into a film, ‘Sully: Miracle on the Hudson’, produced by director Clint Eastwood in September 2016, and Hollywood actor Tom Hanks played the role of Captain Sullenberger.
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