Most of us remember January 15, 2009, the U.S. Air Flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia Airport in New York.

A few seconds into flight, the voice recorder captures the pilot saying one word.

Does anyone remember the word? Birds.

And it wasn't just any birds, but it was a certain kind of geese that were going to cause major problems to this flight

and within seconds this experienced pilot knew that the stakes were high.

We know him as Sully, his name is Chess Lee Sullenberger, played by a very famous actor in the movie.

Did anyone see the movie, by the way? Just checking it. Anybody read the book? Hello?

The book this summer was incredibly moved by the story from the moment the plane took off at 3.27 pm

as it turns out Sully had four minutes to make a life-saving plan.

So instantly he went into action. All the training, all the experience that he had had in life came into play,

very calmly along with his co-pilot Jeff Skiles. He began to make a plan, survey all of his options in a conversation with air traffic control.

Can you get to this airport? Can you get to this airport? And finally his words that we all remember, he said,

look for me in the Hudson. And he had planned to put this plane down in a river in New York City.

And not only did he end up putting the plane down, he ended up putting the plane down like nobody else could put a plane down.

And it resulted in what he had hoped for in moment one when he realized that the plane was disabled and was going to have to make an emergency landing.

What he was thinking about in that moment, as you see the movie, you read the book, you see the details,

how can I save the lives of everyone behind me in this plane? And then he started working with all the information to make a plan to do that.

And then they call it the miracle in the Hudson because he dropped this plane down in a spectacular way to result in this image that sort of seared into the conscious of America.

All 155 people, crew and passengers on this plane lived because of the heroic brilliant actions of this one pilot in the nation just stood in awe to see what he'd done.

I thought, wow, you know, he says in the book that at the end of a lot of flights that he would come to the door of the cockpit to say goodbye to the passengers on the plane.

He said, but most people these days are already on their phones. They're worried about their next connection. They're already hurried to get to their appointment and to get their Uber and to move on through life.

So most of them just kind of funnel on by the moment I read that in the book. I started taking extra time on every flight to go and stick my head in the cockpit.

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