CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The movie “Sully” premieres in theaters nationwide Friday night, and the heroic emergency landing has special meaning for Charlotte. Many of those on board during the “miracle on the ...
The pilot who landed a crippled US Airways jetliner on the Hudson River thought there would have been "catastrophic consequences" if he tried to make it to a nearby airport, a National Transportation ...
CHARLOTTE (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – Home to famous U.S. Airways Flight 1549, the Miracle on the Hudson – The Sullenberger Aviation Museum takes flight this week. Aviation enthusiasts rejoice! If you love ...
No spoiler alert necessary—the ditching of Flight 1549 in the Hudson following a bird strike, and subsequent survival of all 155 passengers and crew (without truly significant injury), is not only a ...
NEW YORK -- Ten years ago Tuesday, US Airways Flight 1549 crash-landed on the Hudson River with no fatalities, causing it to be dubbed "Miracle on the Hudson." Eyewitness News had extensive breaking ...
One hundred fifty-five. The number of people that Ambassador Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger saved on U.S. Airways Flight 1549 after he perfectly landed his A320 in the frigid waters of the Hudson.
WASHINGTON — Federal safety investigators on Tuesday applauded last year’s ditching of an airliner into the Hudson River as an example of an accident in which everything went right, but they still ...
I remember where I was on January 15, 2009, the day of the ill-fated US Airways Flight 1549. We were driving home from a campus visit at Southern Illinois University, and the news of the “Miracle on ...
FAA releases tapes and transcript from Hudson River landing-- listen here. Feb. 5, 2009— -- Audio recordings of a stressful two minutes of communication between air traffic control and US Airways ...