So Captain Sullenberger made a quick decision to land the plane on the freezing water of the nearby Hudson River.

VOA: special.2009.04.01

Post and the famous American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's plane crashed on takeoff near Point Barrow.

VOA: special.2009.03.18

You could be placed in medical isolation if someone you traveled with on a plane is suspected of having swine flu.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

And so begins the first powered flight of the experimental plane designed to take man to the edge of space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

There were new designs for the plane's rocket engine, landing equipment and the small rockets needed to move it in space.

VOA: special.2010.07.07

Pilot Chesley Sullenberger safely landed a US Airways passenger plane on New York's Hudson River after both its engines failed.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

Post would fly the plane. On June twenty-third,nineteen thirty-one, Post and Gatty took off from Roosevelt Field in New York.

VOA: special.2011.04.27

Today,Frank Oliver and Doug Johnson tell about a special plane called Voyager and the effort to set a difficult world record.

VOA: special.2010.10.06

But that idea failed. So the agency decided to use the plane for what was then a new practice: smokejumping.

VOA: special.2009.11.24

He was on his way to Pakistan. He was arrested as the plane was about to leave the gate.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

In another example, pilot Edith Foltz Stearns was flying a plane to a military base in Scotland during World War Two.

VOA: special.2010.02.24

Buddy Holly was killed in the crash of a small plane while on a singing tour in the Midwest.

VOA: special.2009.04.06

When last heard from, Amelia Earhart was seeking to become the first female pilot to fly a plane around the world.

VOA: special.2011.01.18

It began in April of nineteen ninety-four after a plane carrying the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi, both Hutus,was shot down.

VOA: special.2009.03.09