Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger III - who safely piloted a plane onto the Hudson River in 2009 - has spoken out about the ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Sixteen years ago, US Airways Flight 1549 crash-landed on the Hudson River with no fatalities ... online as soon as word of the water landing hit our newsroom that cold afternoon.

The wreckage of US Airways Flight 1549 was tied to the bulkhead in Battery Park City, and years later a Tribecan would commemorate the story for the big screen.

in which US Airways Flight 1549 made an emergency landing on the Hudson River. On Jan. 15, 2009, the plane took off from LaGuardia Airport but lost engine power after hitting a flock of geese.

“They were lucky,” Duffy told The Post this week, 16 years after that infamous Jan. 15, 2009 water landing ... to direct the plane on the Hudson River. FDNY officials told the newly ...