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WASHINGTON - January 5, 2009 - Audio recordings released Thursday by the Federal Aviation Administration reveal a tense, lightning-fast scramble as controllers tried to arrange an emergency landing ...

NEW YORK — The last communication to air traffic controllers from the pilot of US Airways 1549 was direct and to the point. "We’re gonna be in the Hudson," Capt. Chesley Sullenberger calmly says to ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - For the first time we are hearing from inside the cockpit of US Airways flight 1549 that was forced to land in the Hudson River just after take-off. We hear the words of Captain ...

LEE Reflecting on a debut in which the president of the United States has pursued penance in the presence of dictators, while hinting he may endorse prosecution of those whose legal actions helped ...