Flight 1549 | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-06

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549


00:01:03 1 Background
00:02:19 2 Accident
00:02:27 2.1 Takeoff and bird strike
00:05:46 2.2 Ditching and evacuation
00:07:42 2.3 Rescue
00:08:37 3 Aftermath
00:10:09 4 Investigation
00:14:55 5 Crew awards and honors
00:17:49 6 Media and popular culture
00:21:01 7 See also



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US Airways Flight 1549 was an Airbus A320 which, in the climbout after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport on January 15, 2009, struck a flock of Canada geese just northeast of the George Washington Bridge and consequently lost all engine power. Unable to reach any airport, pilots Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Skiles glided the plane to a ditching in the Hudson River off Midtown Manhattan. All 155 people aboard were rescued by nearby boats, and there were few serious injuries.
The accident came to be known as the "Miracle on the Hudson", and a National Transportation Safety Board official described it as "the most successful ditching in aviation history". The Board rejected the notion that the pilot could have avoided ditching by returning to LaGuardia or diverting to nearby Teterboro Airport.
The pilots and flight attendants were awarded the Master's Medal of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators in recognition of their "heroic and unique aviation achievement".