Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

January 15th of 2009 seemed like a normal day to everyone flying out of New York's

LaGuardia Airport, except that their flights were actually leaving on time.

And one of those flights was US Airways Flight 1549.

It was headed towards Seattle, Washington, with a stopover in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Skepton was a former Air Force pilot, with almost 20,000 flight hours under his belt.

This was going to be a cakewalk.

And then, only minutes after it had taken off, the plane struck a flock of geese, which

took out its engines.

The pilot radioed the control tower with details of the incident, and said he was going

back to LaGuardia, but realized that he would never make it in time.

With no other choice, he landed the massive airbus in the middle of the Hudson River.

Chessley, Sully, Sullenberger, and his co-pilot Jeffrey Skiles had saved everyone on board

in what came to be known as the Miracle on the Hudson.

But this was not the only dangerous episode to take place on the Hudson River.

In fact, in 1852, the Hudson was the venue of one of the deadliest maritime disasters

ever reported.

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