On January 15, 2009, U. S. Airways Flight 1549 took off from New York City’s

LaGuardia airport, bound for Charlotte, North Carolina. Seconds later, the

twin-engined Airbus A320 "landed"—if you could call it that—in the Hudson

River. Millions of people watched on live TV as the 155 persons aboard

were picked up and transported to safety ashore. Both engines on the jet had

been shut down by a flight of large birds.

Dear Friend:

Were you watching on that chilly January day when most of the 150 passengers aboard Flight 1549 barely got their

feet wet? How fortunate they all were! Everyone watching marveled at their narrow escape. Everyone aboard

could easily have been killed! The five-person crew, headed by Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger III, all were lauded for

their professional skills. The birds that led to the demise of Flight 1549 were believed to be Canadian geese.

There’s a lot more to this story. One of the key questions to consider is this: Why did Captain Sullenberger choose

to bring the jetliner down in the Hudson River? Wouldn’t it have been better just to land it at LaGuardia?

A few months before the "Miracle on the Hudson" took place, I wrote a book, titled MELTDOWN!

The book included an article titled "Airports for the Twenty-First Century." It explained the inadequacies of older

airports such as LaGuardia and proposed a solution. To make it easy for you to get a copy of just this article,

without buying the whole book, I decided to make it available on this website for you to download. But just then,

the dramatic story of Flight 1549 unfolded. For more details, please click on the link below.

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