. And I 'm really not keen on hearing it too many more times . But on the other side , it 's exhilarating . Again , we were blessed with the best feat in aviation , with the best pilot and co-pilot . That 's all I can say . King : Vince , what goes through your mind ? Vince Spera , survivor : Larry , the entire conversation that you hear going back and forth is just indicative of how the entire cabin was . It was calm , controlled , but tense . That 's really what that conversation started to sound like to me . Listen to pilot 's communication with flight controller '' King : Alberto ? Alberto Panero , survivor : It 's filling in pieces to the puzzle . While everything was going on in the plane , we did n't have much information of what was going on actually . So hearing this now kind of fits into the puzzle , where we see where I was at the point when everything was happening in the plane . King : Brad ? Brad Wentzell , survivor : It 's an amazing
-LRB- CNN -RRB- -- Four survivors of the US Airways Flight 1549 that went down in the Hudson River appeared on `` Larry King Live '' Thursday to discuss a recording of the pilot calmly telling an air traffic controller the plane would ditch . Carl Bazarian , clockwise from left , Vince Spera , Alberto Panero and Brad Wentzell appeared on `` Larry King Live . '' `` We 're gon na be in the Hudson , '' pilot Chesley B. `` Sully '' Sullenberger radioed on January 15 , about three and a half minutes after the Airbus A320 took off from New York 's LaGuardia Airport . The Federal Aviation Administration released the recording on Thursday , a day after the National Transportation Safety Board said both the plane 's engines contained the remains of birds . Larry King : Carl , what goes through you when you hear the recording , especially the calmness ? Carl Bazarian , survivor : You know , to me -- my son played it for me this morning . I found it incredibly stressful and sobering that we were so close to death . And that 's the bad side