US Airways plane lands in Hudson River

Capt. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III kisses his wife, Lorrie, after she introduced him during Saturday’s celebration in Danville, Calif., where they live. He is the US Airways pilot who emergency-landed a passenger jet on New York’s Hudson River recently. Everyone on board survived. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

Sept. 16, 2014 11:01 AM PT

Caden Banks, 4, enthusiastically waves an American flag. He was one of more than a thousand people gathered on the town green Saturday in Danville, alif. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

A man holds a photograph of the Danville, Calif., hometown hero, US Airways Capt. Chesley Sullenberger. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

US Airways pilot Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, with his wife, Lorrie, left, is welcomed in Danville, Calif., on Saturday. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

US Airways Capt. Chesley Sullenberger, center, his wife Lorrie, left, and Danville Mayor Newell Arnerich at Saturday’s celebration for the pilot. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

More than a thousand people attended the ceremonies in Danville, Calif., on Saturday, honoring US Airways Capt. Chesley Sullenberger. (Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times)

In this photo taken by a passenger on a ferry, airline passengers escape the US Airways plane into the frigid waters of the Hudson River. All 155 people aboard were evacuated. (Janis Krums / Associated Press)

New York City police officers get a look at the US Airways plane that went down Thursday in the Hudson River. (Seth Wenig / Associated Press)

The Airbus A320, built in 1999, is tethered to a pier on the tip of Lower Manhattan. (Seth Wenig / Associated Press)

Emergency personnel gather near the US Airways airliner that went down in the Hudson River. Investigators brought in a crane and a barge today to help position the plane. (Seth Wenig / Associated Press)

Part of the airliner is visible in the Hudson River. Investigators will try to bring the plane out of the water intact. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP/Getty Images)

The pilot of US Airways Flight 1549, Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III, is praised for safely landing the plane in the Hudson River. Sullenberger has more than 40 years of flying experience, the last 29 as a captain with US Airways. (Safety Reliability Methods Inc. / Associated Press)

Sandy List, left, gets a kiss from her husband, Nelson, after arriving in Charlotte, N.C., on a flight from New York. Several of List’s co-workers were on US Airways Flight 1549 that landed in the Hudson River earlier in the day. (Chuck Burton / Associated Press)

Passengers from the US Airways plane crash sit on a bus, waiting to get back to LaGuardia Airport from a first aid center in Weehawken, N.J. (Stuart Ramson / Associated Press)

A passenger, right, is directed to a waiting ambulance after he was rescued from the site of the emergency landing. (Liz Schultz / Associated Press)

The tail of the US Airways plane floats near the retaining wall after making an emergency landing in the Hudson River. (Julian Ungano / Getty Images)

The tail of the US Airways sticks out of the Hudson River as night approaches in New York. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP / Getty Images)

The Airbus 320 floats in the waters of the Hudson River in New York. (Edouard H. R. Gluck / Associated Press)

Rescue crews surround the US Airways plane. (Edouard H. R. Gluck / Associated Press)

A rescue worker watches as the US Airways plane floats in the Hudson River. All 155 passengers and crew are safe. (Neilson Barnard / Getty Images)

Rescue crews work on the US Airways plane, whose tail sticks out of the Hudson River. (Emmanuel Dunand / AFP / Getty Images)

A survivor of the US Airways plane crash is taken to the hospital. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Rescue and salvage crafts surround an Airbus 320 aircraft that went down in the Hudson River in New York. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Ferry boats surround US Airways Flight 1549, which went down in the Hudson River in New York off Midtown on the west side of Manhattan. (Bebeto Matthews / Associated Press)

Rescue workers assist passengers on the US Airways flight. (Justin Lane / EPA)

Passengers in an inflatable raft move away from the downed plane. “My understanding is that everybody is alive, but don’t I know if there are any serious injuries or not,” said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown. (Bebeto Matthews / Associated Press)

Onlookers line the hillside as rescue workers surround US Airways Flight 1549 as the plane slowly sinks into the freezing waters of the Hudson River off Manhattan. (Justin Lane / EPA)