5 Tourists and Pilot Killed When Helicopter Crashes Into Hudson River. Agustín Escobar, a Siemens executive from Spain, was sightseeing in New York City with his family when their helicopter ...

Mandy Bowlin, visiting New York from Chattanooga, Tenn., listened as the announcer on her Circle Line tour boat told passengers that they had passed the site of the “Miracle on the Hudson ...

Most of the 155 passengers and crew who survived the river landing of USAirways Flight 1549 gathered to mark the first anniversary since the event — right where it happened.

Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times Still, she was a little disappointed. “I don’t know why we cannot swim here,” she said, as she stood barefoot on the concrete landing, letting the river ...

“Brace for Impact: The Chesley B. Sullenberger Story” provides another opportunity to ponder the the circumstances that conspired to make Mr. Sullenberger a national folk hero.