Query: US Airways Flight 1549 landed in Boise.

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US Airways Flight 1549 <=SEP=> US Airways Flight 1549 was an Airbus A320-214 which , three minutes 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 incident 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 also rejected the notion that the ditching could have been avoided had the crew immediately returned to LaGuardia or diverted 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 '' .

Midtown Manhattan <=SEP=> Midtown Manhattan , or Midtown , represents the central lengthwise portion of the borough and island of Manhattan in New York City . Midtown is home to some of the city 's most iconic buildings , including the Empire State Building , the Chrysler Building , and the headquarters of the United Nations , and it contains world-renowned commercial zones such as Rockefeller Center , Broadway , and Times Square . Along Manhattan 's north-south long axis , Midtown Manhattan separates Lower Manhattan from Upper Manhattan .   Midtown Manhattan is the largest central business district in the world and ranks among the most expensive and intensely used pieces of real estate in the world , and Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan commands the world 's highest retail rents , at US 3,000 $ / ft2 in 2017 . While Lower Manhattan is the main financial center , Midtown is the country 's largest commercial , entertainment , and media center ; Midtown Manhattan is also a growing financial center , second in importance in the United States only to Lower Manhattan 's Financial District .   The majority of New York City 's skyscrapers , including its tallest hotels and apartment towers , lie within Midtown . The area hosts commuters and residents working in its offices , hotels , and retail establishments ; many tourists , visiting residents , and students populate the district . Times Square , iconic as the world 's `` heart '' and its `` Crossroads '' , is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway Theater District , one of the world 's busiest pedestrian intersections , and a major center of the world 's entertainment industry.The Avenue of the Americas holds the headquarters of three of the four major U.S. television networks .

Hudson River <=SEP=> The Hudson River is a 315 mi river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York in the United States . The river originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York , flows through the Hudson Valley , and eventually drains into the Atlantic Ocean , between New York City and Jersey City . The river serves as a political boundary between the states of New Jersey and New York , and further north between New York counties . The lower half of the river is a tidal estuary occupying the Hudson Fjord , which formed during the most recent period of North American glaciation , estimated at 26,000 to 13,300 years ago . Tidal waters influence the Hudson 's flow from as far north as Troy .   The river is named after Henry Hudson , an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company , who explored it in 1609 , and after whom Canada 's Hudson Bay is also named . It had previously been observed by Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano sailing for King Francis I of France in 1524 , as he became the first European known to have entered the Upper New York Bay , but he considered the river to be an estuary . The Dutch called the river the North River -- with the Delaware River called the South River -- and it formed the spine of the Dutch colony of New Netherland . Settlements of the colony clustered around the Hudson , and its strategic importance as the gateway to the American interior led to years of competition between the English and the Dutch over control of the river and colony .   During the eighteenth century , the river valley and its inhabitants were the subject and inspiration of Washington Irving , the first internationally acclaimed American author . In the nineteenth century , the area inspired the Hudson River School of landscape painting , an American pastoral style , as well as the concepts of environmentalism and wilderness . The Hudson was also the eastern outlet for the Erie Canal , which , when completed in 1825 , became an important transportation artery for the early-19th-century United States .