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On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia International airport in New York when a flock of Canada Geese collided with it, destroying both of its machines. Over the next 3 minutes, the plane's pilot, Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, were able to glide it to a safe getting in the Hudson River. It was an instant media sensation-the "Miracle on the Hudson"-and Captain Sully was the hero. But how a lot of the success of the dramatic landing can in fact be credited to the genius of the pilot? From what degree is the "miracle" on the Hudson the consequence of extraordinary-but not well known, and in some instances quite controversial-advances in aviation and computer technology within the last two decades? In Journey by Wire, journalist William Langewiesche needs us over a strange and unforeseen journey in to the amazing world of advanced aviation. In the screening laboratories where technical engineers struggle to create a jet engine motor that can systematically avoid bird problems, through the creation of the A320 in France, to the political and social makes that have searched for to minimize the impact of the revolutionary fly-by-wire technology, William Langewiesche assembles the untold reports essential to truly understand the "miracle" on the Hudson, and makes us question our assumptions about humans in modern aviation.
