At 3:27 PM on January 15, 2009, a flock of Canada geese filled the windshield of US Airways Flight 1549, and both engines went silent. Captain Sully Sullenberger had three minutes and one impossible decision to make.

This is a deep dive into the NTSB reports, cockpit voice transcripts, and expert analysis behind the Miracle on the Hudson. It is less a survival story than a masterclass in human decision-making under extreme pressure, and a debate about whether the pilot or the plane's software was the real hero.

• How Sully's glider training let him instantly calculate that neither LaGuardia nor Teterboro was reachable, leaving only the river
• The NTSB simulations: returns to the airport succeeded only with an instant turn, but every run crashed once a realistic 35-second human delay was added
• The man-versus-machine d ...