Just after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City on Jan. 15, 2009, a flock of Canada geese took out both engines on US Airways Flight 1549. Capt. Sullenberger told his passengers to brace ...
Hear audio of air-traffic controllers and the pilot of US Airways flight 1549, which crash landed in New York's Hudson River in January. The pilot 'Sully' Sullenberger guided the plane into the ...
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III tells PEOPLE It’s been 15 years since the "Miracle on the Hudson," when US Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency water landing in the Hudson River. But Capt.
Captain Sully told the House Aviation Subcommittee in February 2009 that his salary had been cut by 40 percent and his ...
Charlotte-based reporter Ted Reed covers airlines and airline labor. Fourteen years after he landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, an achievement that made him a hero and a prominent ...
Bird strikes occur daily for commercial flights, costing airlines millions in damages each year. Although rare, these ...
Kennedy International Airport. The Airbus A321 was following the same route that US Airways Flight 1549 took in January 2009 when it struck birds after takeoff and was forced to land in the Hudson ...
In 2009, just two minutes into US Airways flight 1549, a flock of birds struck the plane taking out both engines. With no power, the Captain decided to attempt the near impossible - to land it in ...