In 2009, all 155 people aboard US Airways Flight 1549 escaped serious injury when pilot Chesley Sullenberger gently landed his disabled aircraft in the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey.

Though it's pretty well-known that bird strikes can cause major damage to commercial planes, less is known about the impact of drones on airplanes.

“Everything is harder at night,” he said. Image Passengers in an inflatable raft moving away from US Airways Flight 1549, which Captain Sullenberger safely landed in the Hudson River in 2009 ...

On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger successfully landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River, adjacent to Midtown Manhattan, shortly after departing from LaGuardia ...

Here are some of the details, with 15 years of perspective to go along with it: US Airways Flight 1549 embarked at 3:24 p.m. from LaGuardia Airport in New York, bound for Charlotte, North Carolina.

Capt Mike Duffy/Wheelhouse Flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia Airport ... 14 New York Waterway ferries scooped up 143 passengers, and the US Coast Guard and FDNY saved the remaining passengers ...

The plane was jolted violently sideways and within *** few seconds, the captain came on to inform us that we had lost ... 1982A Pan American World Airways flight crashed just after takeoff near ...

Today marks 16 years since the remarkable "Miracle on the Hudson" incident, in which US Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency landing on the Hudson River. On Jan. 15, 2009, the plane took off from ...

US Airways Flight 1549 was leaving from LaGuardia Airport in New York en route to the Charlotte Douglas Airport when the engines were blown out by a bird strike. Pilot Chesley “Sully ...