A black box recording of the moments leading up to the crash of a passenger jet in a New York river has revealed the pilot calmly announced “we are gonna be in the Hudson” before downing the plane in the icy waters.

IN his first public comments about what it was like to safely land a passenger jet in the Hudson River, US Airways pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger has described the ordeal as “surreal” and said the silence in the cockpit after both engines lost power was “shocking”.

Hundreds of people holding signs and waving American flags cheered wildly to honour the pilot who safely landed a US Airways jet in New York’s Hudson River.

A newly-released security camera tape shows the emergency ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in New York’s Hudson River.

Safety investigators said today the US Airways jet that crashed into New York’s Hudson River had a compressor failure two days earlier.

THE investigation of the emergency crash landing of a US Airways jetliner will last a year and the lessons will go on for decades.

Details of the calm manner in which the Hudson River jet crash captain handled the emergency were revealed today.

Salvage crews have hoisted a US Airways jetliner from the Hudson River and onto a barge days after its pilot made a split-second decision to attempt a water landing to avoid a “catastrophic” crash over populated areas.

Plane crash investigators will today attempt to recover the wreckage of a passenger jet that plummeted into New York’s Hudson River, miraculously leaving no-one seriously hurt.

The pilot who miraculously landed a plane on New York’s Hudson River without any loss of life was today coming to terms with his new-found hero status.

An investigation will take place today into the cause of a plane crash which saw 155 passengers and crew plunge into the freezing waters of New York’s Hudson river last night.