US Airways 1549: The 212 Seconds Before The Hudson Eminem [EQrHA4eGD2h]

15 January 2009. Ninety seconds after takeoff from LaGuardia, US Airways 1549 flies into a flock of Canada geese at 2,818 feet and loses both engines. What follows is 212 seconds -- not the 208 you've probably heard -- and at the end of them, all 155 people on board walk away.

This is the version built from the strickland vs khamzat primary record: the CVR and ATC transcripts, the checklist the crew never had time to finish, and the one piece of structure that quietly rewrote a drawing for every A320 in the world.

You will also hear the actual New York TRACON recording -- the real controller, the real final exchange -- released by the FAA in de'aaron fox 2009 and in the public domain.

CHAPTERS

0:00 The mayday nobody heard

1:00 The flight

3:15 212 seconds

12:00 The water

14:00 The rule that changed

SOURCES

- NTSB/AAR-10/03 (adopted 4 May 2010), docket DCA09MA026 -- probable cause, CVR and ATC transcripts, survival factors, structures and powerplants exhibits

- FAA Airworthiness Directive 2017-25-06 (82 FR 58110); EASA AD 2016-0212 -- the frame 65 vertical beam redesign

- 14 CFR 33.76(e), Amdt. 33-36 (88 FR 19801, 2023) -- the core flocking bird test

- FAA New York TRACON air traffic control recording, publicly released 5 February 2009

- Imagery: NTSB, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Department of State, FAA, yash punja USGS The National Map

Every frame is either an original graphic built for this video or a real photograph or document with a documented author and licence. There is no AI-generated imagery. The narration is an AI-generated voice.

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