US Airways Flight 1549 was a regularly scheduled US Airways flight from New York City's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte and Seattle, in the United States. On January 15, 2009, the Airbus A320 serving the flight struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia, losing all …

Jan 17, 2025 · US Airways flight 1549, flight of a passenger airliner that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009, shortly after taking off from LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Five people were seriously injured, but there were no fatalities.

On Jan. 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency landing on the Hudson River, with all 155 passengers and crew surviving—143 of them pulled from icy waters by NY Waterway crews in just minutes.

Jan 10, 2024 · Disaster had struck right after US Airways Flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia Airport. With both of the plane’s engines severely damaged by the bird strike, pilot Chesley Burnett “Sully” Sullenberger III and his first officer Jeffrey …

Jan 17, 2024 · U.S. Airways Flight 1549 crashed into the Hudson River Thursday, Jan. 15 after leaving LaGuardia Airport on its way to Charlotte N.C. Joint rescue efforts by the Coast Guard, NYPD and...

US Airways flight 1549, an Airbus A320-214, experienced an almost total loss of thrust in both engines after encountering a flock of birds and was subsequently ditched on the Hudson River near New York-LaGuardia Airport, USA.

On January 15, 2009, US Airways flight 1549, an Airbus Industrie A320-214, experienced an almost complete loss of thrust in both engines after encountering a flock of birds and was subsequently ditched on the Hudson River about 8.5 miles from LaGuardia Airport (LGA), New York City, New York.

On January 15th, 2009, US Airways flight 1549 from New York’s LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte, North Carolina, left the tarmac at 15:25 with 155 passengers on board an Airbus A320 led by Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III, a 57-year-old former Air Force fighter pilot and a 29-year veteran of US Airways, and the Copilot Jeff Skiles.

Jan 15, 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.

1549, an Airbus A320-214, registration N106US, suffered bird ingestion into both engines, lost engine thrust, and landed in the Hudson River following take off from New York City's La Guardia...