Minutes after he reported hitting birds and losing power in both engines, the pilot of US Airways Flight 1549 calmly told an ...

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 river ...

The pilot who landed a crippled US Airways jetliner on the Hudson River thought there would have been "catastrophic ...

Bird Attackers Left Sinister CluesInvestigators examining the engines of US Airways Flight 1549 found a single, telltale feather left behind by the avian assailants.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Jan. 15, 2009, pilots Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles safely guided their disabled airplane to a safe water ...

Within three minutes of takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport on January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 struck a flock of geese causing the aircraft to lose all engine power. Pilots Chesley ...

"Emergency inbound," one tower controller says as he tries to arrange for the stricken plane to land at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. "Can I get him in for Runway One?" the controller at New York ...

Jan. 15 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1870, a cartoon by Thomas Nast appeared in Harper's weekly with a donkey symbolizing the Democratic Party for the first time. In 1892, Dr. James Naismith ...

Two days before US Airways Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River, passengers on the same flight path said they heard loud bangs and were told their plane may have to make an emergency landing.

Last Thursday, David Sontag, professor of writing for screen and stage at UNC-Chapel Hill, was flying back from New York after attending a funeral for his brother, Dick, in Stamford, Conn. In the sort ...