the most frightened people in the world may have been the crew and passengers aboard US Airways Flight 1549 as the plane headed for a splashdown in the Hudson River. But for the next half-hour ...

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 ...

A US Airways plane with 155 people on board ditched into a chilly Hudson River on Thursday, apparently after striking at least one bird upon takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport, according to ...

to surface detailing the dramatic landing of the U.S. Airways flight landing in the Hudson River. Courtesy Reuters.

US pilot Sully Sullenberger, who famously landed a damaged plane on the Hudson river in New York in 2009 ... hero after ...

Passengers escape from US Airways Flight 1549 after an emergency landing in the Hudson River in New York. Bebeto Matthews / AP Images Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger and the crew of US Airways ...

Capt. Sully Sullenberger became a hero when he landed a jet airliner in the Hudson River after a bird strike. Why don't they use mesh to protect jet engines?

Take a look back at CNN's coverage of Flight 1549's crash-landing in the Hudson River in January 2009. All 155 passengers and crew survived thanks to the actions of Capt. "Sully" Sullenberger.

An incident occurred on January 15, 2009, when the US Airways Flight 1549 flew into ... The pilot had only two options, attempt to land on the Hudson River or crash into one of the densest cities ...