US Airways Flight 1549

2009 aircraft accident in New York, USA
Event aviation_accident Q251039
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US Airways Flight 1549

Summary

US Airways Flight 1549 is an aviation accident[1]. It ranks in the top 0.85% of aviation_accident entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,425 views/month, #12 of 1,410).[2]

Key Facts

  • US Airways Flight 1549 is in the country of United States[3].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's image is recorded as US Airways Flight 1549 (N106US) after crashing into the Hudson River (crop 1).jpg[4].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's instance of is recorded as aviation accident[5].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's instance of is recorded as ditching[6].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's instance of is recorded as flight[7].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's item operated is recorded as Airbus A320 family fleet[8].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's operator is recorded as US Airways[9].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2009008125[10].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 165181902[11].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's location is recorded as Hudson River[12].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's location is recorded as New York City[13].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's Commons category is recorded as US Airways Flight 1549[14].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's aircraft registration is recorded as N106US[15].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's point in time is recorded as +2009-01-15T00:00:00Z[16].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 40.769498, 'lon': -74.004636}[17].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/059_ft0[18].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph927165[19].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's has cause is recorded as bird strike[20].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's has cause is recorded as jet engine ingestion[21].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's number of deaths is recorded as {'amount': '+0'}[22].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's depicted by is recorded as Hudson River Runway[23].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's depicted by is recorded as Getting Out Alive[24].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's number of injured is recorded as {'amount': '+100'}[25].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's start point is recorded as LaGuardia Airport[26].
  • US Airways Flight 1549's start point is recorded as New York City[27].

Why It Matters

US Airways Flight 1549 ranks in the top 0.85% of aviation_accident entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (4,425 views/month, #12 of 1,410).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . ntsb.gov. ntsb.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . ntsb.gov. ntsb.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . ntsb.gov. ntsb.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . timesonline.co.uk. timesonline.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . ntsb.gov. ntsb.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . ntsb.gov. ntsb.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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