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It was featured in an episode of the TV show Mayday with the title "Hudson River Runway"; the episode is from season 10, episode 5. [119] The event was included in a "Hero Pilot" episode that included the Gimli Glider from 1983 and TACA Flight 110 from 1988. It is featured in season 1, episode 1, of the TV show Why Planes Crash.
Visual flight rules on the river corridors by Manhattan have been subject to considerable debate since the 2006 New York City plane crash, in which New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed into an apartment building while flying using visual flight rules on the East River. [6] This was the first aircraft collision over the Hudson River since ...
US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320 departing for Charlotte/Douglas International Airport ditched in the Hudson River after losing both engines as a result of multiple bird strikes at an altitude of 3,000 feet (910 m); all 150 passengers and 5 crew members successfully evacuated.
Captain Sullenberger's heroic life-or-death decision has become world-famous, with the accident dubbed the "Miracle on the Hudson." An Airbus A320 jet crash landed on the Hudson River with no ...
An air traffic controller distracted by a phone call about a dead cat made errors that contributed to the midair collision of a tour helicopter and small plane over the Hudson River last year ...
Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot who safely landed a passenger plane in the Hudson River in 2009, said a combination of two factors might have contributed to the American Airlines ...
Mayday, known as Air Crash Investigation(s) outside of the United States and Canada and also known as Mayday: Air Disaster (The Weather Channel) or Air Disasters (Smithsonian Channel) in the United States, is a Canadian documentary television series produced by Cineflix that recounts air crashes, near-crashes, fires, hijackings, bombings, and ...
Why Planes Crash is a documentary TV series based on aviation accidents and crashes.The series was created, named and produced by Caroline Sommers for NBC News.The series premiered on July 12, 2009, featuring Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger's ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River on January 15, 2009, popularly known as the "Miracle on the Hudson."