Hindustan Times
January 15, 2009, offered us a story of extraordinary valour and miraculous survival. An Airbus A320 left New York’s La Guardia airport for North Carolina. Less than 120 seconds after it took off, it was hit by a flock of Canada geese. It lost both its engines. The pilot, Chesley B Sullenberger III, glided the plane to safety, crashlanding on the waters of the Hudson. Not one of the 150 people on board was killed. Read more
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Filed under Page Turner · Tagged adventure stories, aeroplanes, Airbus A320, Chesley B Sullenberger III, human drama, In Cold Blood, La Guardia airport, New York, North Carolina, real-life, Truman Capote, Vanity Fair magazine, William Langewiesche
