Newly-released tapes reveal that US Airways pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger was calm and collected as he told air traffic controllers his plane was about to crash into New York's Hudson River.
Click to hear audio from the January 15 crash of US Airways Flight 1549, including Sullenberger's report to controllers that both engines had lost thrust after the plane hit a flock of birds. Later, when air traffic controllers try to coordinate alternate landing arrangements, the pilot says there is simply no more time and reveals: "we're gonna be in the Hudson."
Sullenberger has been widely hailed as a hero for safely landing the crippled airliner in the Hudson River, thereby saving the lives of all 155 people aboard.
