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Flight 1549 audio and transcript available

The Federal Aviation Administration has released the exchange between air traffic controllers and the cockpit crew of US Airways flight 1549, which made an emergency landing in the Hudson River on Jan. 15. The audio is lengthy, with many spots of silence. The bulk of the exchange before the landing is in the second half of the 20-minute recording.

You can get the link to the audio and a downloadable file of the transcript at the FAA site:

http://www.faa.gov/data%5Fstatistics/accident%5Fincident/1549/

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