Miracle on the Hudson US Airway Plane Crashes, All Survive

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Miracle on the Hudson: US Airway Plane Crashes into Hudson River … Amazing All Aboard Survive

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It is being touted as The Miracle on the Hudson, a US Airways plane en route from LaGuardia Airport in NYC for Charlotte, NC crashed into the Hudson River and all 155 passengers survived and were pulled to safety. It is being reported that US Airlines Flight 1549 went down minutes after takeoff after a collision with a flock of birds apparently knocked out both engines.

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Divers find jet's missing left engine 65 feet down in river

Published: January 22, 2009
NEW YORK - Divers yesterday found the missing jet engine that broke off a US Airways plane when it splash-landed in the Hudson River last Thursday.

Harbor officers of the New York Police Department and New Jersey State Police working with a sonar expert had detected an object 16 feet long and 8 feet wide near the spot where Flight 1549 made its emergency landing. Divers went into the murky water yesterday and found the left engine in about 10 minutes, a New York police spokesman said. It was lying in mud at a depth of about 65 feet.

Investigators want to inspect the engine when it is recovered to better understand why it stopped running after the plane hit a flock of birds shortly after taking off from La Guardia Airport. The rest of the Airbus A320, with its right engine still attached, has been taken to a New Jersey marina to be studied.

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 Hero pilot: Splash landing in Hudson 'surreal'
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NEW YORK – In his first public comments about what it was like to safely land a passenger jet in the Hudson River, US Airways pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger described the ordeal "surreal" and said the silence in the cockpit after both engines lost power was "shocking."

In a brief interview with ESPN the night before the Super Bowl — where he and the crew were given a standing ovation — Sullenberger said that while he was guiding the plane to a splash landing he felt "calm on the outside, turmoil on the inside."

The California pilot has been called a hero for safely landing the Airbus 320, which lost power in both engines after striking a flock of birds shortly after taking off from New York's LaGuardia Airport. All 150 passengers and crew members were rescued safely.

Asked what it was like when he realized both engines were out, Sullenberger called it "shocking."

"It was very quiet as we worked, my co-pilot and I. We were a team. But to have zero thrust coming out of those engines was shocking," he said.

His wife, Lori Sullenberger, said the two of them have been opening letters from well-wishers every night that are so emotional, "it allows both of us to express emotion about it all. We both sit there and cry."

The couple are to appear in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on CBS's "60 Minutes."

In an account of the ordeal published in The Dallas Morning News on Friday, Susan O'Donnell, an American Airlines pilot who was a passenger on Flight 1549, said that as the plane approached the water, the passengers "remained calm and almost completely quiet."

She described the impact as much milder than she had anticipated. "If the jolt had been turbulence, I would have described it as moderate," she said.

O'Donnell praised Sullenberger's leadership, saying he talked with passengers and crew after the landing and that he'd even remembered to take the aircraft logbook with him.

She said Sullenberger asked her if she wanted to join the crew at the hotel, and that she accepted, as she had lost her wallet.

"He immediately pulled out his wallet and gave me $20. His concern for me when he had so much else to worry about was amazing," O'Donnell said.


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'Miracle on the Hudson' survivors mark 5 years
January 15, 2014

NEW YORK (AP) -- The pilots and some passengers on a plane that made an extraordinary landing on the Hudson River marked the fifth anniversary of that remarkable event on Wednesday, giving thanks to those who kept everyone who was on that flight alive.
"I'm filled with joy and gratitude about what was able to be accomplished by so many five years ago today and the fact that all 155 passengers and crew are here today because of it," said Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, who gained instant fame for his calm handling of US Airways flight 1549.
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