Flight 1549

1-16-09

U.S. Air Flight Crash

I was on my way to Charlotte, NC to visit my family after a very depressing death of my father. Before the call, I was coming from LaGuardia. All of a sudden I heard about twenty bumps on the airplane which seemed like gun shots. You could hear everyone in the airplane gasp in unison. Everything was okay, until it felt like we went over a huge speed bump that seemed to me like hitting an adrenaline patch that failed to stop. From that moment you could see oxygen masks fall from the skinny compartments from the ceiling. That is when everyone started to panic and start to scream. A voice called over the intercom and surprisingly he sounded calm. He stated “everyone please remain calm, we hit a flock of geese and they got into jet engine and caused it to malfunction. For your safety when we hit the water please evacuate in a single file line to prevent chaos. Thank you for your cooperation.” At that time, everyone in the fuselage started to get up and scream, the hostesses tried to get everyone in a single file line, but no one would cooperate. At that time I decided to stay in my seat to allow everything to go by smoothly, or to try to help anyway. Right as it crashed into the water all of the civilians fell to the ground from the pressure. Then, as time went on, you could start to see the freezing water slowly fill up the airplane. Then you hear people from the outside, “is everybody okay? Do you need any help?” What kind of question is that?! I thought. No we’re okay I like to sink slowly into a never-ending ocean. Then, one of the civilians smartly thinks to open the door. At that moment, water started pouring into the airplane knocking several people over again. By the time the water started gushing into the plane I decided it would be a smart move to get up. You could then see hands trying to grab as many people as they could and put them into their boats. By the time they got to me I was halfway covered in water, shivering and chattering my teeth. I then was told I was suffering from hypothermia from the intense water temperature. I was hospitalized, but very thankful that’s all I left out with. Everyone made it out alive though, even the pilot and co-pilot.