Sully Quotes

Elizabeth Davis: [NTSB Hearing Room. Sully and Skiles are transfixed by the video of the engine that almost got them killed] I'd like to add something on a personal note. I can say with confidence, that after speaking with the rest of the flight crew, with bird experts and airplane engineers, after running all the scenarios and talking to each of the players... there is an X in

this result. It's you, Captain Sullenberger. Take you out of the equation and the math just fails.
Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger: I disagree.
[the room hushes. Waiting for Sully to finally unleash. Instead...]
Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger: It wasn't just me. It was all of us. Jeff, Donna, Sheila, Doreen. The passengers, the rescue workers. Air

traffic control. The ferry boat crews and the scuba cops. We did it. We survived.
Elizabeth Davis: First Officer Skiles, is there anything you'd like to add? Anything you would have done differently, if you had to do it all again?
Jeff Skiles: Yes.
[beat]
Jeff Skiles: I would have done it in July.
[surprises the

room]
Jeff Skiles: .

[after landing on the Hudson successfully with passengers and crew being assisted off the ferry boat]
Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger: Dan, I need to know who's hurt and how badly and I need a count... 155, that's my number... That's passengers and crew
Dan Britt: OK, and how are you?
Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger: I'll answer

that question when we've counted 155
Dan Britt: All right
[later on in the hospital and Arnie walks in]
Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger: Arnie, The union is pulling out all the big guns today, huh
Arnie Gentile: Talked to Dan Britt, Sully... got a count... 155
Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger: 155

Arnie Gentile: It's official... 155
Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger: 155... 155... Thank you Arnie