Pilot told controllers: We’re going to be in the Hudson

THE pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, which ditched into New York’s Hudson River last month, calmly radioed to air traffic controllers: “We’re going to be in the Hudson.”

The audio recordings, released yesterday by the Federal Aviation Administration, reflect the initial tension between tower controllers and the cockpit and then confusion about whether the passenger jet went into the river.

“Emergency inbound,” one tower controller says as he tries to arrange for the plane to land at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.