Washington: The pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, which ditched into New York's Hudson River last month, calmly radioed to air traffic controllers, "We're going to be in the Hudson".
The audio recordings, released on Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration, reflect the initial tension between tower controllers and the cockpit and then confusion about whether the passenger jet went into the river.
"Emergency inbound," one tower controller says as he tries to arrange for the stricken plane to land at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey across the river from New York.
"Can I get him in for Runway One?" controller at New York's LaGuardia Airport asks the tower at Teterboro. "Runway One, that's good," says the tower controller at Teterboro.
"We can't do it," replies the plane's pilot. "Which runway would you like at Teterboro?" asks the tower at LaGuardia.
"We're going to be in the Hudson," the pilot replies.
"I'm sorry, say again," an air traffic controller responded after hearing the pilot's message that he was ditching the Airbus A320. There was no response from the aircraft.
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