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-As human beings, we all know we're going to die
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but you never think it's going to be today.
We always assume we've got a tomorrow,
we've got a next month,
we've got a next year and all of a sudden,
that was not a true assumption anymore.
-Sully gives the command that, "this is the Captain, brace for impact!"
-I don't think many people hear those words and
are here to talk about it afterwards.
-And I said, "May I hold your baby?"
-I kept screaming, "Go, don't stop moving.
You got to get off this plane."
You say to yourself, this is really happening, I'm about to die.
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PAM: I'm standing on the bank of a river.
There's a gentleman standing next to me, I don't know who this gentleman is
and we're watching a plane take off.
There's smoke coming out of the engines.
I ask, "What's happening?
The man next to me says, "I don't know."
I see this plane disappear behind the horizon
and then suddenly a cloud of smoke comes up.
It frightened me, it woke me up.
That day I was scheduled for an afternoon flight
but I kept thinking about that dream.
I kept thinking, 'I shouldn't be doing this, shouldn't be doing it.'
The gate agent was reaching out for my boarding pass,
I couldn't do it.
I'm sorry I can't do this.
That dream was frightening me too badly.
I turned around and walked away.
Got back in my car and drove home.
That night I was watching television.
I was absolutely convinced that I was going to turn on the news
and see something had happened.
And of course it didn't.
So I dismissed it as myself just being silly.
And on January the 15th, I headed out the door.
And was on my way to La Guardia.
-I travel to New York every single month
and I am always on the 5 o'clock flight.
What's the run on this?
-We can do 10,000. -OK? -Yeah.
EILEEN: But that day I decided to take an earlier flight however,
I completely forgot that I had booked on the 2:45
and one of my associates said to me.
"Aren't you gonna be late, don't you have to leave for the airport?"
I just grabbed my bags.
And I jumped in the cab and I said,
"I need to be at the airport at LaGuardia in 20 minutes."
You gotta get me there, just don't kill us!
BARRY: January of 2009 was one of the worst economic situations in the US.
Everybody was having very difficult times and honestly very,
very concerned about where our country was gonna go.
I was worried about getting home because of the weather.
I was extremely concerned that the flights were gonna be delayed or cancelled.
-Oops, sorry! -That's OK.
TESS: I was concerned about Martin checking in at curbside,
because I wasn't sure exactly how they were going to assign our seats and
it was very important that we all be seated together for the flight to Charlotte.
-It's still cold out there!
I was actually flying the leg back down to Charlotte to end the trip.
And all the clouds and the snow that had delayed us had moved off to the east so,
so New York City was actually bright sunshine.
I'd never actually flown with Sully before.
At the time, he'd worked at US Airways for 30 years, I worked there for 24,
and I don't really recall even seeing Sully.
Uh, you could see that he was definitely a professional.
He had an air about him.
MARTIN: It wasn't until we did board the plane that we realized that
we had different seating assignments.
Tess had Damien as a lap child, uh in 19E and uh my, I was at 20, 26 uh,
23B and uh Sophia was at 23E directly to my lower right, uh, across the aisle.
-Did you ask for us to be seated together?
I really felt that it was my right, as a mother, to be seated with her child
and husband and so I was persistent
about having this rearranged.
Excuse me, Miss, we need to be reseated.
My daughter is sitting on her own.
-Just sit down and I'll reseat you once we are up in the air.
-She is 4 years old! -She can switch with me.
-Thank you so much. -Thank you.
-That was a wonderful thing to do, again,
crucial to, to her survival that day.
-The mother of the baby seemed a little stressed.
I just had to tell her to please sit down; we're getting ready to go.
One, she had to strap in and everything else, but that's normal because
these things happen all the time.
Like I said, this was only one family on board, so it was easy.
-At that point I really started to feel uneasy.
In fact there was a point where I stood up and I just wanted to get off the plane.
Excuse me, I need to get off this plane.
Excuse me?
The attendant said, "Sit down."
-Miss, sit down now!
-And, so I sat down and the gentleman to my right was, um, very kind
and sort of put my mind at ease.
-Can I help you in any way?
I'm a father of five myself.
TESS: He had an American flag on his lapel.
Very closely shaved haircut and just seemed very in control.
I'm fine now, thank you for asking.
MAN (over radio): Cactus 1549 taxi foxtrot bravo hotel echo,
just got to hold you for about 3 minutes, for your uh, in trail to Charlotte.
PATRICK: That day I was scheduled to work a 3 to 11 shift.
See that?
Got the briefing, got the configurations, uh frequencies that we're using
for the day and I just took over from there.
Cactus 1549, line up runway 4.
MAN (over radio): Cactus 1549, Runway 4 for take off .
-Cleared for takeoff Cactus 1549.
JEFF: Sully lined it up with the center line stripes and he says.
-Your aircraft. -My Aircraft.
We started to accelerate down the runway.
Sully makes our standard call outs.
-81, rotate.
JEFF: I pull back and we leave the runway behind.
EILEEN: I've read information about, when plane crashes occur
and they're usually in the first 90 seconds and
so I've made it a habit to count that off and then I feel a little safer.
I start my count, "One 1,000, two 1,000.
Three 1,000, four 1,000, five 1,000.
I got to, 1,000-80, 1,000-81,
1,000-82, 1,000-83.
And thought, this is good, we're almost there, we're almost there.
And boom!
(screams).
-The plane just shook and and shuddered.
I didn't really understand what it was at all.
I just couldn't fathom what it could be with us being 3000 or so feet up in the air.
-It's fine.
BARRY: Directly after that there was a smell.
-I assumed it might have been an electrical fire,
so the first thing I checked out was my galley in the back.
I tried to call the flight attendants in the front on the interphone.
The interphone did not work, this had never happened.
Miss, its fine, stay in your seat.
As I walked through the cabin, I had my hands on the overhead racks,
but what I was feeling for was heat and fire.
Miss, you need to sit down.
BARRY: My seat mate actually I remember him looking out the window.
And he looked at me and he said, "Sir I think the engine is gonna fall off."
I actually undid my seatbelt, went over to the window,
and I said,
"I have some good news and some bad news,
the good news is the engine isn't gonna fall off.
The bad news, it's not running."
BRAD: I was a pretty well-seasoned traveler.
I had spent a lot of time in the air.
I had never heard anything like that before.
I looked out my left window and I, I saw sparks flying off the engine.
Then it stopped suddenly.
And it got really quiet.
You could have heard a pin drop.
JEFF: At 3,000 feet in the air I look out and slightly to our right
and above us I see a line of birds.
Obviously I was shocked they were so close too close to ever possibly maneuver around.
Then I saw them descend in our windshield and I thought that we were going
to fly over the top of them.
Both engines immediately lose thrust.
You could just feel it kind of sag in the air and the speed tape
was just was decelerating.
That was when the real shock kind of hit suddenly my head was swelling
and I was looking at the world through a fog.
-Engine start selectors.
-Sully was galvanized into action. -On, off.
-He turned on our auxiliary power unit. -APU.
-And then took over flying the airplane at that point by saying,
'My aircraft'.
-Your aircraft.
He pushed the nose over hard to establish a glide.
The only way we can do that is by trading altitude for air speed.
EILEEN: And I thought we were just gonna head, straight into the ground.
I thought, "I have to call my husband, I have to call David.
We're probably going to die."
-I was at the car wash and she seemed concerned and said
there was a problem with the plane.
I'm sure everything is fine.
-I said, we're going to crash.
We took off and we hit something and there's fire.
-Wait hold on, did you say fire?
At that point I knew that it wasn't just nervous flying.
All of a sudden you're having an emergency situation that you basically have no control
over uh trying to talk with her and keep her calm and to see
exactly what the facts really are.
Eileen can you hear me?
Eileen?
But then the call dropped.
BARRY: The day before my wife and I were waiting for results for breast cancer.
That was extremely stressful, just waiting to get those results back.
I actually prayed and just said, "God if you're gonna take anybody please take me."
And I got the phone call.
(phone rings).
And my wife was fine thank God.
I love you, bye.
(crying)
I made this deal with God to take me instead of her,
so if that was what was happening.
I was fine with that.
-Engine start selectors, fuel control switches.
JEFF: I was responsible for trying to restart the engines.
And you could hear the clicking of the igniters, you know,
over our radio headsets because it was so quiet.
APU selector.
After a while, I realized that they were never going to run again.
-Engine start selectors.
-They were completely destroyed.
APU selectors.
I knew that we were going to be coming down some place and all we're looking at is is uh
roads, houses, skyscrapers, this is New York City.
There's there's no open land where we could set this airliner down.
PATRICK (over radio): Cactus 1549 New York departure radar contact,
climb and maintain one five thousand.
When I reached out to cactus 1549 to turn them westbound.
Cactus 1549 turn left on 2, 7, 0.
I kinda cut off his transmission.
It was only after I un-keyed the mike that I heard the rest of his transmission.
SULLY (over radio): This is Cactus 1549.
Hit Birds, we've lost thrust in both engines.
PATRICK: Immediately I could feel my heart rate increase and my heart it felt like it
was almost like pounding outta my chest.
JEFF: Sully was talking with the air traffic controller about LaGuardia.
It seem like to me it would be too far away, and that we were too low
to possibly stretch our glide that far.
PATRICK (over radio): Hi Cactus 1549, there's going to be less traffic to Runway 31.
SULLY: Unable.
PATRICK (over radio): OK, what do you need to land?
JEFF: Our air traffic controller pointed out another airport to us,
Teterboro, which was over in New Jersey.
PATRICK (over radio): OK, off to your right side is Teterboro Airport.
Do you want to try to go to Teterboro?
JEFF: I was actually concerned when I didn't hear Sully respond right away and
I was about to say, "You don't think we can make that?"
When he said.
-We can't do it, we're gonna be in the Hudson.
PATRICK: It just seemed eerily quiet uh you know.
I think it's probably people assessing is that real.
Is that really happening?
JEFF: We were getting a large number of warning devices, audio signals.
We're getting an audible callout over our speakers of "traffic, traffic."
We're getting a "too low gear, a too low flap" callout.
ALARM (over speaker): Caution, terrain, caution, terrain.
JEFF: We have an alert bell which is sounding continuously.
(alert bell rings)
Through all this noise Sully had the presence of mind to gives the
command that "This is, this is the captain, brace for impact."
SULLY (over intercom): This is the Captain, brace for impact.
MARTIN: The only words I heard from the pilot were, "brace for impact"
and that's when I realized, 'Wow, we're gonna, we're really going to go down'
and you have no idea what that means.
If we're gonna, you know, line, land gracefully or if we're gonna you know,
smash up and roll over into a million pieces.
I turned to Sophia and I, and I tightened up her seatbelt as hard as I could.
And I had basically laid over on top of her, to you know, protect her from the impact.
I mean, that's, that's all the uh, instinctually all you can do.
-Excuse me Miss?
-My seatmate asked me if he could brace my son and I said, "Yes."
My thought was well if there's any chance of him surviving it
would be better in a stronger man's arms.
-It will be fine, we're in safe hands.
I think the words coming out of my mouth were completely different
than the thoughts that were in my head.
I was not even supposed to be on the plane that day.
I was in New York at the time working on the new football stadium
for the Giants and the Jets.
My business meeting finished early.
So I rushed to LaGuardia as fast as I could, and went to the counter
and said "Hey, can I get on this flight?"
Perhaps it was fate.
I do not know but I got the last available seat on the plane.
SULLY (over intercom): This is the Captain, brace for impact.
DOREEN: I don't think many people hear those words and are here to talk
about it afterwards, so it was like somebody politely telling you
that you're gonna die very soon.
I'm supposed to be yelling out my commands to tell the people to brace.
Heads down, stay down.
Brace, brace, brace, brace...
And I, at that point accepted that that was where I was going to die.
And that was it, I was overcome with unbelievable sadness that I can't,
I never wanna feel again.
EILEEN: The calls dropped two times, the third time the Captain said,
"Brace for impact."
And I said, "Oh my God, we are gonna crash!"
And then I said my goodbyes.
DAVID: The finality of her saying that and then me telling her that I loved her
and her asking me to make sure everybody got taken care of that uh
was a pretty good shock.
TOWER (over radio) He's just about a mile and a half north of the Lincoln Tunnel.
Last sighted below 900 feet.
We still got a target on him but he looks like he's low level.
MAN (over radio): Two ten (inaudible), is he still flying?
WOMAN (over radio): Still flying.
MAN (over radio): There may be an incident here.
PATRICK: We were watching the airplane get lower and lower over the Hudson River.
And that's when I had to say um the words that no controller ever wants to have
to say and that's, "radar contact lost".
And that's the last thing you say before a crash.
Cactus 1549, radar contact lost.
MAN (over radio): Yeah two Tango Alpha he's at 900 feet abeam the North Hudson.
He looks like he's descending into the Hudson River.
PATRICK: It was a combination of disbelief and just feeling sick to your stomach about it.
I thought I was part of the worst aviation incident to happen in, in recent times.
MAN (over radio): 4718, I think he said he was going in the Hudson.
BRAD: I looked out my window and I saw the George Washington Bridge.
We barely clear the bridge.
And then and then the plane started to pick up momentum
and we're going down faster and faster and faster and faster.
I knew there were no miracles and my time had come.
I started thinking about my daughter.
PAM: We're now lower than the high rises of Manhattan and it was at that point
I realize we're going into the water.
I thought, it's going to break apart, it's going to be horrific,
but I'm gonna survive.
DOREEN: Brace, brace.
PAM: I started doing the preparation for how am I going to get out.
Where am I going?
Which door am I going out of?
There could be fire.
There will be metal everywhere.
Had it all figured out because I envisioned that I was going to be doing
this underwater and in the dark.
-Brace, brace, heads down, stay down.
PAM: Grabbed the chair in front of me put my head down as low as
I could and just hung on.
-Right before we touched down in the water, Sully asked me, "Got any other...
-Ideas?
-And I said, "Actually, not."
JIM: I remember looking out the window and seeing the water fast approaching.
I put up a knee on the seat in front of me.
And I held him as close to me as I could.
She leaned forward and there we went into the river!
The impact was just tremendous.
(explosive noises).
And I'm thinking, "Oh God if there's any moment,
give me strength now not to let go of this baby."
(screaming).
And then, nothing.
But a millisecond later when one feels that cold river water
coming up around your ankles.
That is when pandemonium broke out.
(panic, screaming).
MARTIN: A lot of the seals on the windows had given in.
So that water was rushing in, at a very rapid rate from not only the underside of the,
of the cabin, but also from the windows.
I finally unfastened my seatbelt and I grabbed Sophia.
(screams).
She was, you know, crying and she didn't know what was going on.
And I was horrified myself.
BRAD: Everybody's panicking.
They weren't thinking clearly.
And I felt there was a need for somebody to say, you know, instruct the crowd.
Come on, get up.
Move, move, keep going forwards.
People are starting to grab things in the overhead.
And I remember yelling," Get out of the overhead!
Get out of the overhead!"
One gentleman kept reaching up and finally I said to him,
"Somebody's gonna drown for whatever you're reaching for."
Move, come on!
I kept screaming, "Go!
Don't stop moving.
You got to get off this plane."
You got to get off this plane.
JIM: I still had the baby in my arms and he seems to be perfectly fine.
-Move, move!
JIM: Tess sits up forward and I hand the baby back to her
and I say, "We gotta go."
TESS: My best option was to crawl over the seats with Damien.
I need to get through.
There was no way I could have gone into the aisle because there was
lot of pushing going on.
The chances of us being trampled were probably pretty big.
(commotion).
I got to a point where I couldn't crawl anymore seats.
Everyone was passing me and I felt invisible for a little while.
It was, um, sort of a survival of the fittest.
BRAD: I look to my right, there's people climbing over the seats,
I look to my left and there's people climbing over the seats.
I heard a woman scream.
(Tess screams).
I see a woman holding a baby to her chest and she's absolutely terrified.
I've never seen a look like that in my life, terror.
There was a selfish side of me that said, 'get off the plane,' you know, 'that's life.'
We're inching forwards, step by step and I turned around again and I saw her screaming.
I said to myself, 'man, if you don't go back and help her,
you'll never sleep another day in your life.'
Move, get out of the way!
I went back, knocking people out of my way.
Get out of the way, come on move!
People were blocking me off.
I was extremely irritated by that.
Move.
I just remember picking them up and saying 'come on, you're coming with me'.
I gotcha, I gotcha.
I just started waddling my way down the aisle the best I could.
Move, move.
At that point she passed out in my arms.
Miss, Miss?
EILEEN: My adrenaline was going 100 miles an hour.
I mean it was surging because I was afraid.
I was terrified.
I just knew we were in imminent danger.
It felt really dangerous.
(screams and shouts).
And my phone rang.
(phone rings).
It was David.
He said "Are you down?"
and I said we were in the water.
DAVID: Even though they were in the water I still figured the engines were hot
enough to ignite jet fuel.
So my main concern was to get her off the plane.
Listen to me, you have got to get off that plane.
EILEEN: And so that got me moving.
(screams and shouts)
There were already people crowding through the door.
So I just sort of got pushed along, like a herd.
When I stepped out of the door, it was just chaos.
It was freezing cold.
The plane was sinking.
The jet fuel reeked and we'd had a fire.
I wanted to be as far away as I could get.
And I felt this movement behind me.
DAVID: And then her phone went dead.
Damn it!
EILEEN: It was like slipping into mud.
It was brisk and cold and heavy.
I looked around to see, 'Oh my God, what do I do?
Do I get back on the wing?'
I saw someone who looked like they were attempting to swim off to shore
and I saw the raft.
I tried to grab onto the side, and I kept slipping back
and slipping back and slipping back.
Finally I just hurled myself over the top.
The girl behind me was flailing, I mean arms and legs going and screaming.
-I need my passport, I need my passport!
EILEEN: And I slipped out of the raft and went back into the water.
(shouting).
Even though my adrenaline was going full steam, the water was dangerously cold
and I couldn't feel my limbs so well anymore.
Something had to change really quickly or we'd drown.
-Keep going, move!
Finally we got up to the exit and I heard somebody say...
-Oh my God, a baby! -Somebody reached up and grabbed the baby.
You got her?
And at that point I lost her for the rest of the journey.
People were shoulder to shoulder.
It, it was a mess.
(shouting).
We've got to make more room for more passengers and the only other place to step
besides the wing was the raft.
Give me your hand.
And it's sitting under the wing of the plane.
We flipped it over, I leaped off the wing
and I started pulling myself up the back.
And was able to weigh it down then people starting boarding one at a time on to the thing.
The only thing going through my mind at that point was this plane is about to sink.
Is everybody out?
How many people are dead?
What's still in that plane?
(screams and shouts).
-As human beings we all know we're gonna die.
I've known, I mean, nobody gets out this deal alive.
But, you never think it's gonna be today.
We always assume we've got a tomorrow, we've got a next month, we've got a next year.
And, all of a sudden that was not a true assumption anymore.
It's my worst nightmare recognized.
-Move forward!
-I mean, I am in a closed confined space with water and I can't get out.
The water's going to keep coming up, up and up and I'm going to drown.
I did not want to drown.
But I had this calm come over me and I thought, "No, you've gotta get off this plane.
You've got three children, get off this plane."
-You can't use the back, go forward, go forward.
I was screaming to the people.
"We can't use the back, go forward, go forward."
That was the only thing I could possibly do back there,
everything else was out of my control.
I went kind of crazy, pushing and screaming and, whatever I had to.
And I made sure that all those people frozen in front of me, when I pushed,
I mean, I did whatever I had to do.
Go move forward, move forward!
Move forward, move forward.
(shouting).
MARTIN: At a certain point I realized that the emergency exits were opened and,
you can actually see it getting brighter as you, you ascended up the aisle.
Finally, I saw Tess standing by the door with Damien.
That was pretty powerful there she is, she's OK, she's not passed out,
she's got Damien, he's awake, he's alert, he's not bleeding.
I don't remember exchanging words, we were just, 'let's get the heck out of here!'
TESS: I did not anticipate being on a wing, knee deep in freezing water,
with a baby in my arms.
That's really when the trauma set in.
(screaming).
VALLIE: This man I don't who is, to this day, I don't I don't know,
who he was but he looked at me, he pointed at me and he says, "Get those kids!"
So I thought, "great, somebody has given me an action step,
you have given me something to do."
And I turn back to the mom and I said, "Hand me your baby."
TESS: She passed him onto another passenger.
He was very wet so they were sort of covering him up trying to keep him warm.
The lady took Sophia.
She just held her.
She just sort of made it her mission at that time to hold on to her.
DOREEN: When I got to the front the passenger from 1C didn't take their life vest.
As I bent over I saw my leg.
During the impact a piece of metal with an angle iron on the end came through the floor
and went through my leg and I never felt it.
I guess that's adrenaline.
I still had no idea about the blood coming, nor did it matter
but I didn't know any of that yet.
I must have been a sight.
I slid onto the raft, blood went everywhere.
They were looking at me like, "What happened to her?"
-Ferries!
-When I saw the ferry I thought finally help,
someone's coming to rescue us
and that felt so good.
Over here, over here!
And that didn't last very long.
Everyone, threw up their hands and started screaming.
Stop, No!
It was huge, it was massive and it was coming right towards us.
And it couldn't stop.
(screaming and shouting).
The ferry clipped the wing and I slipped back into the water.
And you just were sickened.
I thought it was so close to being over and then it wasn't over and then something
terrible was gonna happen again.
And we just kept going over and over and over, relief, fear.
SHAE: Everybody was wanting to get on the ferry and it was like a, um like a rope ladder.
And I tried to grab a hold of it.
But by then the ferry was having to back up.
And it dragged me back into the water.
(screams).
MICHAEL: As we got closer towards the scene, there was a flash of red that,
that caught the corner of my eye.
She just really seemed to be holding on; she wasn't really climbing up
or trying to get herself out of the water.
And I said, that person right there.
That's who we need to get to first.
And that's when I jumped out of the helicopter.
I asked her her name, and she said her name was Shae, and I said,
my name's Michael and I'm gonna help you get out of the water.
Once we realize we weren't gonna get up this cargo net.
I said, "You're gonna have to let go of the net" She said that,
"We're gonna get run over."
I said, "Listen, trust me."
She let go reluctantly and I grabbed her by the arm and uh so did
Detective Rodriguez and we swam as hard as we could.
(screams).
One of the other boats that were in the area was going be our best opportunity.
♪ ♪
We helped her out as much as we possibly could at that point.
There was other people that needed our help also.
-Good evening.
It had just taken off from New York's La Guardia Airport bound for Charlotte,
North Carolina and then a midair disaster struck US Airways flight 1549.
Word arrived that a commercial jet liner was in the water with 155 people on board.
-The first time I heard about the plane I was just expecting
a lot of lacerations.
A lot of uh um injured parts, bodies.
Missing parts of the body.
Because of the magnitude of the, of the event.
I started running to the different area of the marina, with expectation that there
were gonna be more injured passengers.
What I had imagined in my head and what I saw there was a completely different story.
Completely different.
I basically saw people just sitting with the blankets covering themselves
and like this.
Like they were frozen in time.
You could hear people breathing, that's how silent it was.
There was only a baby crying very faint on the back.
BRAD: They put these necklaces around us with stickers on them.
And you realize right then and there what they're doing.
They're counting.
That was a very uncertain feeling.
You realize they're, they're taking count to see how many of you made it.
Suddenly they make this announcement, "Oh my God, we got everybody!"
(applause).
It was just one of those most amazing moments in your life where you realize,
'I'm a part of a miracle' 155 people crashed and everybody,
everybody survived.
It's, it's unreal.
It's absolutely unreal.
PAM: Because I had been in the water so long, they realized I had hypothermia,
I had been vomiting for a while, so they had assessed me
and said that I needed to go to the hospital.
And it was when I was being wheeled out to the back of an ambulance there
that I realized how big
this... there was helicopters circling overhead, there was media.
There were lights everywhere.
I remember I just couldn't even see.
And being asked questions as I'm wheeling out "what happened, how are you?"
-Please tell us what happened?
How are you?
Are there any other survivors?
PAM: And all I kept thinking was 'I don't, I don't know what happened,
I really, can someone explain to me what just happened?'
BRAD: You're rushed by reporters.
They see you wearing this Red Cross blanket and the cameras in your face.
What happened da, da, da, da, da.
-He gonna talk, he's gonna talk, sir?
BRAD: I remember just looking at the camera and saying, this pilot is the reason my
daughter still has a father.
Little did I know that that blurb was gonna follow me for the next several months.
Woman (over radio): Let's get the latest now on what's being called,
'The Miracle on the Hudson' and everyone on board lived to tell the story.
Man (over radio): We've had a miracle on 34th street.
I believe we've now had a miracle on the Hudson.
-I am truly convinced that it was a miracle.
I was truly, truly grateful.
But the dark side of that is that there are nightmares and there's anxiety.
VALLIE: If you asked me today if I would board flight 1549 I would not
because it's still just too hard.
My hope is that going through an experience like this one will make me
a better person, will make me a better mom, make me a better wife,
a better sister, a better daughter.
BARRY: I was lucky that day, and it just keeps reminding me that I'm still here
and I'm with my family and that there are other things that I need to do with this life.
BRAD: Something good happened for the first time in a long time and people,
people needed that, and, uh, I was, I was ecstatic to be a part of it.
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