Jorgensen spent five sleepless nights after the crash of US Airways Flight 1549. "I'm not talking about a half hour of sleep here or there. I literally didn't sleep for four or five days," he said. "Slowly over time, a couple weeks after the crash - it didn't happen overnight - I came to grips with things I started to realize it was a blessing that I was in that plane. It was such a positive story for the nation."

"With all the bad going on, the negative things going on, it was satisfying being a small part of such a great story," he said. "I've used it as fuel to be better with my second chance, to be better at everything - be a better father, a better husband, better son, better brother, better employee. I've turned it into a positive."