They looked like they were posing for an eclectic class picture: dozens of smiling faces, everyone carefully lined up. As cameras clicked, the survivors of US Airways Flight 1549 cheered and laughed loudly enough to remind everyone that they had made it. From the plane's youngest ...

The first rescuers on the scene when a crippled jetliner landed in the Hudson River were not police or the U.S. Coast Guard, but ferries that offer visitor tours and shuttle commuters between New Jersey and Manhattan. Within minutes, the sightseeing and commuter ...