Captain Sully, 74, was deemed a hero when he successfully landed a doomed Airbus A320 flight into New York’s Hudson River on 15 January 2009, after the plane struck a flock of Canada geese at an altitude of 2,818 feet, causing both engines to ignite into flames and shut down – all 155 people on board the plane survived.

Capt. Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot behind the Miracle on the Hudson in 2009, joins TODAY with analysis on the midair collision between an American Airlines passenger plane and a military helicopter in Washington,