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.

Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger III - who safely piloted a plane onto the Hudson River in 2009 - has spoken out about the Potomac crash involving a helicopter

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,