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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: US hero pilot left prayers to 'somebody in back' AFP - Monday, February 9 NEW YORK, (AFP) - - After smelling "burned bird" in the engines, the pilot who splash-landed a jet with 155 people on board safely in New York's Hudson River last month said he left the praying to "somebody in back." ADVERTISEMENT In his first major broadcast interview about the January 15 accident US media has dubbed a "miracle," pilot Chesley Sullenberger told CBS he focused on landing and did not think about the passengers. "Not specifically ... I mean, knew I had to solve this problem. I knew I had to find a way out of this box I found myself in," he said. "I had a job to do." Drawing on his 42-year flying experience, Sullenberger put nerves and panic aside and coolly assessed the situation, talking with air traffic controllers about his limited possibilities, finally deciding to land his plane in the frigid river water. "I think, in many ways, as it turned out, my entire life up to that moment had been a preparation to handle that particular moment," he said. The former US Air Force fighter pilot was asked if at any point in the three-minute ordeal he prayed for salvation. "I would imagine somebody in back was taking care of that for me while I was flying the airplane," he said. He described the experience of losing the engines on his US Airways Airbus A-320as "the worst sickening, pit-of-your-stomach, falling-through-the-floor feeling I've ever felt in my life." "I knew immediately it was very bad," he said in the interview, which is to air in full on Sunday. Code-named Cactus 1549 by air traffic control, the passenger jet hit a flock of large birds -- presumably geese -- as it took off from LaGuardia Airport, knocking out both engines. Sullenberger said he realized at once the plane had been impacted by birds that were "filling the entire windscreen, from top to bottom, left to right ... You could hear them ... loud thumps. It felt like the airplane being pelted by heavy rain or hail. "It sounded like the worst thunderstorm I'd ever heard growing up in Texas." He realized the damage the birds had done "when I felt, heard and smelled the evidence of them going into the engines. "I smelled what I described at the time, and I still would as a burned bird smell being brought from the engine area into the conditioning system of the airplane." Asked if he was thinking "How are we going to get ourselves out of this?'" the pilot told CBS: "No. My initial reaction was one of disbelief." But then, with insufficient time to make it to an airport, he brought the jet down, skimming into the Hudson. "The only viable alternative, the only level smooth place sufficiently large to land an airliner was the river," he said. Sullenberger's calm in the crisis was also detailed in a released transcript of his conversation with traffic controllers as he landed. "We're gonna be in the Hudson," the US Airways captain told LaGuardia airport. It was the air traffic controllers who reacted with disbelief. "I'm sorry, say again Cactus," came the reply, according to transcripts released Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration. All 150 passengers and five crew climbed out onto the wings of the sinking jet and were quickly rescued by New York ferry boats. Sullenberger made a perfect landing, easing the jet onto the river and avoiding a devastating break-up upon impact. Crew and he helped passengers out, where they waited on the wings for rides -- many on commuter ferries -- to safety. Of the first responders, Sullenberger told CBS: "'Thank you' seems totally inadequate. I have a debt of gratitude that I fear I may never be able to repay." Sullenberger, who has been celebrated as an American hero since the episode, said after it was clear everything had turned out well, "I felt like the weight of the universe had been lifted off my heart." But he said for a while he relived the near-tragedy and found it difficult to sleep, thinking he could have done "something better, something more complete." "The first few nights were the worst. When the 'what ifs' started. The second guessings would come. Made sleep hard." 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