Mark the 15th anniversary of the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ with this article from the Aircraft Interiors International archives. Doreen Welsh, the rear cabin flight attendant on US Airways Flight 1549, shares why the event had every reason to go wrong, and how self-preservation, improvisation and a little good luck helped ensure everyone on board survived to tell this unbelievable tale.

US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River. Image: Greg Lam Pak Ng / Wikimedia Commons
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