US Airways Flight 1549 movie "Drive". The lyrics of the second verse describe the water landing and the survival of the passengers and crew, as well as alluding to the freezing river. Sullenberger's memoir, "Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters" was adapted into a feature film "Sully: Miracle on the Hudson", directed by Clint Eastwood, with Tom Hanks as Sullenberger and Aaron Eckhart as co-pilot Jeff Skiles. It was released by Warner Bros. on September 9, 2016. US Airways Flight 1549 US Airways Flight 1549 was an Airbus A320-214 which, in the climbout after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport on
Pollution of the Hudson River project is the most aggressive environmental effort ever proposed to clean up a river, and will cost GE about $460,000,000. In 2002, EPA announced a further of contaminated sediments in the upper Hudson River would be removed. GE began sediment dredging operations to clean up the PCBs on May 15, 2009. This stage (Phase One) of the cleanup was completed in October 2009, and was responsible for the removal of approximately of contaminated sediment, which was more than the targeted amount. Over 620 barges filled with sediment were transported to the processing facility on the Champlain Canal, and over 80