Showing posts with label US Airways. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Airways. Show all posts

Monday, March 7, 2011

"Sully" Reflects, 2 Years After Hudson Landing

US Airways Captain Chester "Sully" Sullenberger looks back on the "Miracle on the Hudson," two years after he successfully landed a passenger jet in the Hudson River.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Finally a home to rest for US Airways flight 1549 ditched in the Hudson?

Courtesy of Gothamist.com
According to the NY Post the Charlotte, NC, based Carolinas Aviation  Museum is intersted in buying the wreckage of US Airways flight 1549. For the past year parts of the remains have been up for auction. See pictures here.
The flight under command of Captain Chesley Sullenberger ditched in the Hudson River January 15th 2009 after suffering a severe bird strike shortly after take off. All 155 souls on board where rescued while the plane sunk slowly.





Sunday, September 26, 2010

Jeppesen chart US Airways miracle landing in the Hudson river

Jeppesen the leading supplier for aeronautical charts released a humorous chart to commemorate the remarkable ditching of US Airways flight 1549 in the Hudson River in New York in January 2009. Check it out