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29: Flight 1549

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In 2009 an AirBus A320 departing LaGuardia Airport in New York suffered a dual engine failure due to a bird strike during takeoff. In a highly improbable event an equally highly improbable landing in the Hudson River shocked and amazed the world. We look at what went right on Flight 1549.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

  • US Airways Flight 1549
  • The Miracle On The Hudson
  • NTSB Official Report (PDF)
  • 49 CFR 830.2 Definitions
  • CFM International CFM56
  • Chesley Sullenberger
  • Jeff Skiles
  • What the ‘Sully’ Movie Gets Wrong
  • LaGuardia Airport Diagram
  • Cold Water Survival
  • Medium Flocking Bird Test at Climb Condition

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