'Miracle' plane to begin journey to NC museum

HARRISON, N.J.

The US Airways jet has been housed in a warehouse in northern New Jersey since its splash-landing that was dubbed "The /*Miracle on the Hudson*/."

It's scheduled to leave on a giant flatbed truck Saturday morning for the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, N.C., where it will be on display. The journey will take almost a week.

The plane was bound for Charlotte from New York on Jan. 15, 2009, when it struck a flock of geese and lost engine power.

All 155 people aboard survived after Capt. /*Chesley Sullenberger*/ elected to ditch the plane in the frigid Hudson.

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