Miracle on the Hudson Plane Wreckage, Sully Sullenberger convoy Robbinsville NJ

(AP) HARRISON, N.J. - This time the river crossing was a lot slower, and a lot drier.
The US Airways plane whose safe landing on the Hudson River captivated the world two years ago rolled out of a warehouse and across the Passaic River on Saturday morning to begin the trek to a North Carolina museum where it will become a piece of American history.

Accompanied by a phalanx of police cars and film crews, the damaged Airbus A320 eased out of the J. Supor and Sons warehouse lot where it has sat since the splashdown in January 2009 made its pilot, Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, a national hero.

With traffic stopped and people rolling down their windows to take pictures with their cell phones, the flatbed truck crossed the river into Newark, took a left onto Route 21 South and then a right toward the heart of downtown. The caravan passed the Prudential Center Arena before turning onto Broad Street, the city's main drag, for a few blocks before heading southwest.

US Airways Flight 1549 was bound for Charlotte from New York on Jan. 15, 2009, when it struck a flock of geese after takeoff and lost power in both engines. Sullenberger considered trying to land at nearby Teterboro Airport in New Jersey but quickly recognized that would be too risky and elected to touch the plane down in the frigid Hudson.

Within minutes, rescue boats and commuter ferries arrived and eventually rescued all 155 passengers and crew. The riveting scene was captured in photographs showing passengers lined up along the wings of the slowly sinking plane.


Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III (born January 23, 1951)[1] is an American airline transport pilot (ATP), safety expert, and accident investigator from Danville, California.[2][3][4] Sullenberger rose to fame when he successfully ditched US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River off Manhattan, New York City, on January 15, 2009, saving the lives of all 155 people on the aircraft.
Sullenberger is an international speaker on airline safety[5] and has helped develop new protocols for airline safety. As of September 30, 2009, Sullenberger is also the co-chairman of the EAA's Young Eagles youth introduction-to-aviation program.[6] Sullenberger retired from US Airways and its predecessor airline after 30 years with them on March 3, 2010.[7] In May of the following year, Sullenberger was hired by CBS News as an on-air aviation expert.[8]
He is the author of Highest Duty, a memoir of his life and of the events surrounding Flight 1549, published in 2009 by HarperCollins. He was ranked second in TIME Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential Heroes and Icons of 2009.[9]

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[sainsajix]

this is in my text book

[ravenmad2011]

Good video.

[wlfrnfdjf]

Great video!! I'd rather watch personal videos of this than to watch it on the news!! Thanks for sharing & thanks for not talking through it!! (o;

[XSidSChikX]

Great video!!

[vlevesque2000]

Saw it on Rt 130 in Burlington NJ when it went by..

[Larm2112]

I just saw this in Cherry Hill Nj!!!

[MarkStettler]

Thanks for sharing!

[4773266]

Nice One!