Last Thursday, David Sontag, professor of writing for screen and stage at UNC-Chapel Hill, was flying back from New York after attending a funeral for his brother, Dick, in Stamford, Conn. In the sort ...

Bird Attackers Left Sinister CluesInvestigators examining the engines of US Airways Flight 1549 found a single, telltale feather left behind by the avian assailants.

The Smithsonian Institution’s Feather Identification Laboratory has concluded DNA matter found in both CFM56-5B/P engines of US Airways Flight 1549 came from the Canada goose, which generally weighs 5 ...

Two days before US Airways Flight 1549 landed in the Hudson River, passengers on the same flight path said they heard loud bangs and were told their plane may have to make an emergency landing.