What the records say
- When
- 15 Jan 2009
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 40.77° N, 74.00° W
- Description
- 2009 aircraft accident in New York, USA
- Deaths
- 0
- Injured
- 100
- Cause
- jet engine ingestion, bird strike
US Airways Flight 1549
2009 aviation accident in New York
US Airways Flight 1549 was a regularly scheduled US Airways domestic flight from New York City's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte and Seattle, that ditched onto the Hudson River shortly after takeoff on January 15, 2009, due to a double engine failure caused by a bird strike.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “US Airways Flight 1549 ditches in the Hudson River in an accident that becomes known as the "Miracle on the Hudson", as all 155 people on board are rescued”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “US Airways'in 1549 sefer sayılı uçuşu: US Airways'in 1549 sefer sayılı uçuşunu yapan uçak Hudson Nehri'nde indi”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “US-Airways-Flug 1549 endet mit einer Notwasserung auf dem Hudson River in New York City”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En el río Hudson, frente a Manhattan (Nueva York), acuatiza el vuelo 1549 de la empresa estadounidense US Airways; sobreviven las 155 personas que viajaban a…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “حادث الطائرة خطوط الولايات المتحدة الجوية الرحلة 1549 في نهر هدسون”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “USエアウェイズ1549便不時着水事故が発生。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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