Flight 1549: Panel explores safety issues in Hudson ditching
WASHINGTON (AP) - A hearing resumes in Washington today on the miracle landing in New York's Hudson River of US Airways Flight 1549.
The National Transportation Safety Board is looking into safety concerns arising from the accident which everyone survived.
When the Airbus A320 landed in the river, the fuselage ruptured, sending water gushing into the cabin, and there didn't appear to be enough room in the available life rafts for all the passengers and crew.
On Tuesday, the board released a transcript of the plane's cockpit voice recorder and heard testimony from the hero pilot, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger. The jet struck a flock of Canada geese shortly after taking off from New York's LaGuardia Airport on Jan. 15 and lost thrust in both engines. Sullenberger told the board he didn't try to return to LaGuardia because he thought, "I cannot afford to be wrong."
