So Captain Sullenberger made a quick decision to land the plane on the freezing water of the nearby Hudson River.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Post and the famous American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's plane crashed on takeoff near Point Barrow.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

She was one of fifty people killed in a plane crash on February twelfth near her hometown of Buffalo,New York.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Before the flight went down, sensors gave conflicting information on air speed to the plane's computers, possibly because of ice.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

Pilot Chesley Sullenberger safely landed a US Airways passenger plane on New York's Hudson River after both its engines failed.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

Post would fly the plane. On June twenty-third,nineteen thirty-one, Post and Gatty took off from Roosevelt Field in New York.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

Buddy Holly was killed in the crash of a small plane while on a singing tour in the Midwest.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

He was on his way to Pakistan. He was arrested as the plane was about to leave the gate.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

On January 15th, the engines of a US Airways plane lost power shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in New York City.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

The pilot gets on his radio and calls "mayday,mayday,mayday" to tell that his plane is in danger of crashing to the ground.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

On Friday, at an airport in Vienna,Austria, an American plane and a Russian plane landed, parked side by side and exchanged occupants.

VOA: special.2010.07.10

The pilot spent fifty hours in a simulator -- a copy of the plane on the ground -- preparing for his ten-minute flight.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

There was a failed attempt to bomb a plane on its way to Detroit,Michigan,on Christmas Day.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

One night,Doctor Close was on a plane, returning from a visit to the United States.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

Crew members would study the effects of height and temperature on themselves and the plane.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

On June seventeenth, nineteen twenty-eight, the plane left the eastern province of Newfoundland,Canada.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

So on June first, nineteen thirty-seven, a silver Lockheed Electra plane left Miami,Florida.

VOA: special.2010.05.26