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The first-person accounts by surviving passengers made for riveting journalism. CBS anchor Katie Couric interviewed Dave Sanderson, the last passenger to leave the fuselage, waiting as water lapped around his waist to make sure it was completely evacuated. Then "I just jumped in and started trying to swim to the first boat I could find. Fortunately somebody pulled me up on the boat because I did not have much use of my lower extremities at that point." Passenger Jeff Kolodjay, who was traveling to Myrtle Beach to play some winter golf, answered anchor Brian Williams' questions on NBC: "The captain did a hell of a job making sure that everyone survived," he declared. "Kudos to the pilot and kudos to the people that helped get us on board because I do not know how long we could last in that water. It is pretty cold." ABC's Dan Harris talked to Kolodjay too and exploded the "major myth of plane crashes that people go into a blind panic." Koldjay told him that "people were certainly scared but they maintained their cool even after they smashed into the frigid waters."
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