On a cold January morning in 2009, a US Airways flight left New York's LaGuardia Airport.
At the controls that morning was veteran Captain Chesley Sullenberger, whom everyone called "Sully."
Moments after takeoff, the plane ran into a flock of geese, disabling its engines.
Unable to reach any nearby airport, Sully and co-pilot Jeff Sykes safely guided the plane into the Hudson River, where it stayed afloat long enough to get every single persopn off the plane safe and alive.
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