Us Airways flight 1549 was a regularly scheduled flight from New York City to Charlotte in Seattle. On January 15th 2009 the flight struck a flock of birds shortly after takeoff, and that strike is where it all went wrong. From there on they lost all engine power and that plane was no longer a plane but a glider.
The plane was an Airbus A320 and had a call sign of “cactus 1549” or just “cactus”. The plane was carrying 155 people all of which survived.
The First plan was to turn around and land at LaGuardia in New York City or the takeoff point of the flight, but planes are not designed to fly whiteout engines and that means they do not go vary far before they hit the ground, so they resized that they where not going to make it and needed a place to land and the safest place to land in that particular situation was the Hudson River so that is what they did and the way those people survived is New York. People in New York work together and the ships that saved those people where ships they where ferries carrying people and those people where putting their lives in danger to save other lives.
That is the story of The Miracle In the Hudson River.
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