Hero pilot's homecoming
The small California town of Danville does not bestow honours lightly. In its 150-year history, it has awarded the key to the town only twice. On Saturday, Chesley Sullenberger became the third.The...
View ArticleRecordings of air traffic communications with the pilot of US Airways flight...
Air traffic control's conversations with the pilot of the US Airways plane which landed in the Hudson RiverExtracts of the audio recordings released by the Federal Aviation Administration.Continue...
View Article'We may end up in the Hudson' - New York plane crash tapes released
• Federal aviation administration releases audio from cockpit• Tapes detail attempt to return to LaGuardia airportBoth his engines were out and he was losing altitude – but Captain Chesley...
View ArticleFAA transcript of Hudson river US Airways plane landing
Listen to audio of the recordingsThe Federal Aviation Authority has released transcripts of communications that took place between US Airways Flight 1549 and air traffic controllers when the plane...
View ArticleVideo: 'We may end up in the Hudson'
US aviation authorities have released cockpit tapes from US Airways flight 1549's splashdown in New York's Hudson river Continue reading...
View ArticleHero of Hudson plane surprisingly calm during ordeal, tapes reveal
Captain Chesley Sullenberger remained composed while describing disastrous situation to air-traffic controllersIf there were any remaining doubt about the hero status of Capt Chesley Sullenberger,...
View ArticleCrew of US Airways Flight 1549 gives first TV interview
Pilot said power loss to engines was 'worst, sickening, pit-of-your-stomach' feeling he had ever felt in his lifeSomewhere between the lines of Ralph Waldo Emerson - "A hero is no braver than an...
View ArticleBank staff on aborted flight can keep refunds
For any other aborted business trip, it would be a reasonable request. But Bank of America has been obliged to apologise for asking 23 staff to refund fares for the US Airways flight which...
View ArticlePilot of Hudson river plane warns airline cuts may threaten safety
At congressional hearing, Captain Chesley Sullenberger said pay and benefit cuts drive experienced pilots from industryThe captain and crew who guided US Airways Flight 1549 to a smooth landing in New...
View ArticleYouChoose: Twitter's business model, real gun noises and a recreation of the...
Jon Stewart and The Daily Show get their claws - long, scratchy ones - into Twitter. Which means that its place in popular culture is assured. So now it really needs a business model.Continue reading...
View Article'Miracle on Hudson' plane for sale in online auction
Airbus A320 that Chesley Sullenberger landed on New York river is being offered by insurer – without enginesFor sale: one severely water-damaged jet, hero not included.The US Airways plane that Captain...
View ArticlePhotographs of the decade: your submissions so far
We asked you to send us your favourite photos that you have taken in the last 10 years. We're impressed. Keep them coming!On Saturday 13 November, following on from a piece in the Guardian Review in...
View ArticleExperience: I crash-landed in the Hudson
'I could hear people screaming and one instinct took over: I need to get out'I've never been anxious about flying. I'm Australian and I've always travelled widely, so I was completely relaxed when I...
View ArticleClint Eastwood to direct film about pilot hero Chesley Sullenberger
Miracle on the Hudson will tell the true story of the airline pilot whose 2009 water landing saved 155 livesAt the grand age of 85, Clint Eastwood finds himself the hottest director in Hollywood,...
View ArticleClint Eastwood’s Sully: Miracle on the Hudson – trailer
Tom Hanks stars as Captain Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger, the central figure in the real-life ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ which saw Sullenberger pilot his crippled airliner in a controlled descent into the...
View ArticleSully: Hudson river plane crash investigators object to their portrayal
Clint Eastwood’s film on the 2009 accident, out Friday, portrays National Transportation Safety Board as out to blame pilot Chesley SullenbergerLosing thrust in both engines but still managing to land...
View ArticleSullied: with Sully, Clint Eastwood is weaponizing a hero
In depicting government investigators as petty and clueless, the Hudson plane crash film trumpets a libertarian worldview at the expense of passenger safetyDirected and co-produced by Clint Eastwood,...
View ArticleSully review – pious hagiopic that even Tom Hanks can't save
Clint Eastwood’s film about the heroic pilot who landed his passenger jet on New York’s Hudson river after both engines failed is a simplistic, anticlimactic treatment that avoids the bigger...
View ArticleNearly 70,000 birds killed in New York in attempt to clear safer path for planes
Bird-killing programs at airports ramped up in response to 2009 accident when jetliner was forced to land in Hudson river after birds were sucked into engineNearly 70,000 gulls, starling, geese and...
View Article‘Miracle on Hudson’ pilot slams Lara Trump for mocking Biden's stutter
Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger tells president’s daughter-in-law to ‘grow up’ and ‘show some decency’ in New York Times columnChesley Sullenberger, the pilot who performed the “Miracle on the Hudson”,...
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