Soon after US Airways flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia ... The New York Times looked into this in the days after the flight 1549 bird strike. According to former National Transportation Safety ...

A US Airways plane with 155 people on board ditched into a chilly Hudson River on Thursday, apparently after striking at least one bird upon takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport, according to ...

Hear audio of air-traffic controllers and the pilot of US Airways flight 1549, which crash landed in ... into the river after it collided with birds, causing both engines to fail.

The birds that hit Flight 1549 were identified ... Passengers escape from US Airways Flight 1549 after an emergency landing in the Hudson River in New York. Bebeto Matthews / AP Images Capt.