I find this amazing.Landing on the wings of prayers.
Photo by Reuters
Fron New York Times: In a split second, a pilot becomes a hero.
They all got out alive.
The 155 passengers and crew aboard US Airways Flight 1549 scrambled to safety yesterday after the jet’s pilot coolly landed the aircraft in the frigid waters of the Hudson River and a fleet of ferry boats helped pluck the passengers off the wings, where they stood waiting.
Just three minutes after taking off from LaGuardia at 3:24 p.m. and bound for Charlotte, N.C., pilot Chesley Sullenberger radioed the tower that both engines on the twin-engine Airbus A320 had shut down after it apparently flew into a flock of geese. At 3:31 p.m., the pilot landed the craft in the Hudson, avoiding Manhattan’s crowded west side.