Days after his heroic plane landing, Capt. Chesley Sullenberger has scored a coveted invitation to the presidential ceremony
Both the cockpit voice and flight data recorders were recovered in "excellent" condition from a crippled US Airways jetliner that landed safely on the Hudson River last week, a National Transportation Safety Board official said Sunday.
The pilot who landed a crippled US Airways jetliner on the Hudson River thought there would have been "catastrophic consequences" if he tried to make it to a nearby airport, a National Transportation Safety Board official said Saturday night.
Heroic pilots
updated: Sun Jan 18 2009 00:16:00
CNN's Lisa Sylvester reports on the two pilots at the helm of the US Airways jet that landed safely in the Hudson River.
'Miracle flight'updated: Fri Jan 16 2009 23:01:00
Survivors and witnesses to US Airways 1549 crash-landing in the Hudson river talk of their ordeal.
The National Transportation Safety Board and other agencies are investigating not only what went wrong, but also what went right Thursday when a US Airways flight ended in the Hudson River without any deaths or major injuries.
Lessons learned from previous successful airliner ditchings helped pilot C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger save 155 lives when he put his US Airways A320 jetliner down in the Hudson River, a fellow pilot told CNN.
Passengers on the US Airways flight that crash-landed into the Hudson River Thursday afternoon praised the actions and courage of the pilot, a safety consultant with 40 years of experience in the aviation industry.
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