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At around 3:24pm on the 15th of January, 2009,  US Airways flight 1549 took off from New York   City's La Guardia airport, bound for Charlotte  in North Carolina. Mere minutes after takeoff,   however, the plane suffered a bird strike, which  resulted in the loss of power in both engines. With 155 people on board, the pilots of flight  1549 were left with no choice. They would have   to attempt an intensely dangerous emergency  landing in the only place they could reach:   New York City's Hudson River. On the day of the incident, flight  1549 was being captained by 57-year-old   Chesley Sullenberger, a former fighter pilot  with almost 20,000 flight hours to his name.   Joining him in the cockpit was  First Officer Jeffrey Skiles,   a 49-year-old with a similar number of total  flight hours, but who had not previously had the   opportunity to pilot an Airbus A320. Skiles took  control of the plane for takeoff. Visibility was   good - so good, indeed, that th