Captain Cheley “Sully” Sullenberger IIIThe famous passenger plane on the Hudson River in 2009 landed, commented on the deadly aircraft collision that took place over the Potomac River on Wednesday night.
“We had to find out important blood lessons too often and we finally went beyond it, to where we could learn from the incidents, not accidents,” Captain Sullenberger told the New York Times.
Sullenberger explained the socket that “it’s getting harder” when it flies at night. He noted that even though the pilot ability to see maybe the darkness was influenced, “we do not know” whether this was the case.
“I am devastated,” Sullenberger said. “We have an obligation to learn from every failure and improve.”
The efforts in search and rescue can be seen around the place of the wreck in Rijeka Potomac from the National Airport Ronald Reagan Washington, early Thursday morning, January 30, 2025 in Arlington, Va. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)
Around 9:00 pm on Wednesday night, an The military black hawk collided With an Airrican Airlines plane near the National Airport of Reagan outside Washington, DC of all 67 people on board of both aircraft is assumed to be dead.
John Donnelly, head of the District Fire Department Columbia, said on Thursday morning that the authorities do not believe that there are survivors, and the mission switched “from rescue operations into recovery surgery.”
Part of the wreck is viewed as rescue ships searched by the water of the Potomac River after the airport at the National Airport reaches crashed into the Rijeka near Washington, DC, January 30, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump He called the deadly collision “a dark and painful night in the capital of our nation and in the history of our nation and a tragedy of a terrible scale.”
“Together, comfort in the realization that their journey did not end not in the cold waters of descendants, but in a warm embrace of the god of love,” Trump said.
In a video statement, Defense Minister of Peta Hegsetth confirmed that the department knew “on our side that was involved. It was a pretty experienced crew, which did the necessary annual evaluation.
Sean Duffy, who swore hours before the collision, said “everything was standard” before the collision. He also vowed to receive answers for the victims’ families and the American people.
All 155 people on the flight of American Airways in 1549 stood on the wings of the aircraft where the “Sully” captain safely landed in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009. (American Veterans Center)
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In January 2009, Sullenberger must have landed Airbus A320 in the Hudson River after hitting a flock of birds that disabled those engines shortly after the departure; All 155 people on board survived. His heroic actions, later called “Miracle on Hudson,” were screened in the movie Sully of 2016, starring Tom Hanks.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
