Plane Crash in the Hudson River

Plane Crash in the Hudson River

A Charlotte-bound US Airways flight makes a water landing off the shores of Manhattan
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Many credit the quick thinking of the plane's chief officer, Chesley B. Sulllenberger III, for the plane's relatively safe landing.

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