Four weeks after US Airways Capt. Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III and First Officer Jeffrey B. Skiles calmly landed an Airbus 320 in the Hudson River on Jan. 15, all 49 passengers and crew aboard a Continental Express flight were killed when their turboprop airliner crashed outside Buffalo, N.Y. One man on the ground also was killed.

Separate hearings in Washington last week suggested that the different outcomes of the two flights might have been a direct result of the tr ...

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