Hero pilot tells of 'sickening feeling' when engines failed

Hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger said the moments after both engines of US Airways Flight 1549 lost power were the worst of his life.

Hero pilot Chesley Sullenberger said the moments after both engines of US Airways Flight 1549 lost power were the worst of his life.

He told a CBS 60 Minutes TV interview it was “the worst sickening, pit-of-your-stomach, falling-through-the-floor feeling” he had ever experienced.

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