Miracle on the Hudson River
This is the astonishing footage of the
landing on the Hudson river.
We also see the passengers standing on the
wings of the plane after the US Airways Flight had to make an
emergency landing in the Hudson river.
US Airways Flight 1549's emergency landing on
the Hudson had to be one of the most extraordinary accident
sites in the history of aviation: The Hudson River — which
slices through a famously-congested chunk of real estate,
suddenly transformed into a runway paved with water.
What’s even more extraordinary is that this time, instead of
only looking at what went wrong, air accident investigators will
also be studying what went right. Because plenty did, beginning
with the pilot’s actions.
“Pilots around the world were cheering for this guy because we
all know what it took to do what he did,” says Tom Casey, a
former pilot for American Airlines about US Airways pilot
Chesley B. Sullenberger III.
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