It was intense

"Brace for impact."
"It was intense. It was intense," said passenger Jeff Kolodjay, of Norwalk, Conn., of that moment.
"Everyone was kind of orderly," said a chilled Kolodjay, who ended up wearing a jacket given to him by "GMA's" Chris Cuomo. "I kept saying, 'Relax, relax. Women and children first.' And then, it just started filling with water, quick."
The water terrified Levshina, who was stuck in the last row of the plane.
"I thought I'd be the last one out of the plane. That was really scary," she told "GMA."
"At first, it was relatively calm, but when people realized we had to get out, people were prompting others to get off the plane, with yelling. I was one of those [yelling]. I didn't want to drown there," Levshina said.
'I Jumped In'
Barry Leonard said he was sitting in the first row and was right next to an emergency exit. A flight attendant told him to head for the door and jump.
"When I got to the door, the slide that normally would come out wasn't there yet," he told "GMA" from Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen, N.J., where he was being treated for a cracked sternum. "But they still said jump into the water. I had no idea what to do. ... I jumped in."
Leonard quickly realized that he wouldn't last long in the frigid water.
"I started swimming, but we were in the middle of the Hudson, obvious...