'Miracle on the Hudson'
View our gallery of the crash—and rescue—of Flight 1549.
Steven Day / AP Photo
Airline passengers wait to board a ferry to be rescued from the wings of the US Airways Airbus 320 jetliner that safely ditched in the frigid waters of the Hudson River.
Steven Day / AP Photo
Passengers in an inflatable raft move away from the plane.
Bebeto Matthews / AP Photo
Passengers disembark the plane, in this photo taken by a passenger on a ferry.
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Passengers are rescued from the fuselage.
Eric Thayer / Reuters
Rope is thrown to a passenger raft.
Eric Thayer / Reuters
Passengers wait to be rescued their plane splashed into the water.
Eric Thayer / Reuters
Passengers in an inflatable raft move away from the plane towards a ferry.
Bebeto Matthews / AP Photo
Rescue crews secure the plane as it floats in the Hudson River.
Chris McGrath / Getty Images
The plane rests against a retaining wall.
Louis Lanzano / AP Photo
A passenger is helped to a waiting ambulance.
Liz Schultz / AP Photo
Survivors wait for a bus to take them from a First Aid center in Weehawken, N.J. back to La Guardia Airport.
Stuart Ramson / AP Photo
The plane's wing juts out of the water.
Edouard H. R. Gluck / AP Photo
Sandy List, left, gets a kiss from her husband Nelson, right, after arriving in Charlotte, N.C., on a flight from New York.
Chuck Burton / AP Photo
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