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Given their position in relation to the available airports and their low altitude, pilots Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles decided to glide the plane to ditching on the Hudson River near Midtown Manhattan. [ 1 ][ 2 ] All 155 people on board were rescued by nearby boats.
15 Ιαν 2009 · U.S. Airways Flight 1549 afloat in the Hudson River on the afternoon of 15 January 2009. Before he left his airplane, Captain Sullenberger twice went through the cabin to make sure than no one was left aboard. He was the last person to leave Flight 1549. Rescue efforts were immediately under way.
Abstract: This report describes the January 15, 2009, accident involving the ditching of US Airways flight 1549 on the Hudson River about 8.5 miles from LaGuardia Airport, New York City, after an almost complete loss of thrust in both engines following an encounter with a flock of birds. The 150 passengers,
15 Ιαν 2019 · All 150 passengers and five crew made it off the plane; only five suffered serious injuries. What’s remarkable is how quickly everything happened, especially given the outcome. Two minutes after ...
On September 1, 1961, at 02:05 CDT, the flight crashed shortly after takeoff from Midway Airport (ICAO: KMDW) in Chicago, killing all 73 passengers and five crew on board; it was at the time the deadliest single plane disaster in U.S. history. [1][2]
5 Αυγ 2010 · Survival on the Hudson. Inattention to safety briefings, life vests and life lines increased risks after US Airways Flight 1549 touched down. by Wayne Rosenkrans | August 5, 2010. The public’s intuition that “fortuitous” circumstances contributed to all occupants surviving the January 2009 ditching of an Airbus A320 in the Hudson River ...
Despite the aircraft losing an engine and all flight controls and crash-landing in a huge fireball (which was caught on video by a local news crew) that killed 112 people, 184 people survived the accident.
