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

In nineteen twenty-eight, he got a job flying the plane that belonged to a rich oil producer from Oklahoma.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

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

There were new designs for the plane's rocket engine, landing equipment and the small rockets needed to move it in space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

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

But that idea failed. So the agency decided to use the plane for what was then a new practice: smokejumping.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

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

VOA: special.2010.05.08

The passengers and crew got onto the wings as water entered the plane and the aircraft floated downriver.

VOA: special.2009.01.30

A voice next to her in the plane called out to warn her about a dangerous hill nearby.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

As he later described it, the plane was not much more than half a kilometer above the trees.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

Incorrect air speed readings could have led the pilots to fly so fast that the plane broke apart.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

It could change the plane's path just enough to destroy the pilot's chance of a safe landing.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

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

Once the flight landed in New York he deployed the emergency slide and left the plane.

VOA: special.2010.08.13