In a quick conversation with the Teterboro air traffic control tower, the Tracon controller lays out the emergency and secures Runway 1 for the US Airways jet. "Oh, what's over to our right, anything in New Jersey, maybe Teterboro?" "I'm not sure we can make any runway," the US Airways pilot interrupts. "What do you need to land?" He offers LaGuardia's southwest-northeast runway instead. The controller directs the US Airways airplane to Runway 31: same runway, just landing from the other direction. "We're unable," the US Airways pilot responds, 35 seconds after his first emergency transmission. The controller then asked the pilot of the Airbus A320 if he would like to return to Runway 13, LaGuardia's northwest-southeast runway that would have him landing with Flushing Bay to his left, the airport terminals and Queens to his right. "He lost thrust in both engines, he said," the controller replies. "Cactus 1549, which engines?" LaGuardia asks. "It's Cactus 1549," the Tracon controller replies. "Who is it," the LaGuardia control tower asks. He orders all LaGuardia departures stopped. Turn left heading of 220," the controller immediately responds. "Okay, yeah, you need to return to LaGuardia. The recording is filled with routine transmissions before we get to the interesting parts.Īfter the US Airways flight informs the controller of the bird strike, the controller starts working the emergency. Keep reading for a recap of the three minutes between bird strike and the airplane's landing in the Hudson. The Federal Aviation Administration has released a recording and transcript of the conversation from the Tracon, the traffic control center, and the flight. That began an urgent few minutes as air traffic controllers offered the crippled flight some options, and one of the pilots concluded quickly that the Hudson River was the airplane's only option.
EST by a quick transmission from the US Airways cockpit: 15, including the takeoff of US Airways Flight 1549, known as Cactus 1549 in air traffic control lingo.īut the routine callouts and responses were interrupted at 3:27 p.m.
It was an afternoon with routine instructions, requests and acknowledgements at the New York Tracon on Jan.
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