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'Miracle' Plane Rolls Through Maryland Tuesday
U.S. Airways Flight 1549 passed through Pikesville at about 10:20 a.m. Tuesday.
Some Baltimore Beltway drivers may often feel like a vehicle is taking up two lanes, but Tuesday morning, one oversized truck actually was.
Of course, that truck was carrying the fuselage of an Airbus A320, helped along by a Maryland State Police escort.
What’s left of the plane that passed through southwest Baltimore County on the ground Tuesday morning was last in the air as US Airways Flight 1549, a flight that famously ended in the Hudson River after the pilot, Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger III, was forced to make an emergency landing with 155 passengers on board.
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The aircraft’s fuselage is making its way through Maryland today in route to the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, NC.
At least one car pulled onto I-695’s shoulder to take photos of the aircraft.
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Penny Gischlar of Glen Arm, MD, walked over from her office to to see the plane go by.
“I just think this is a once in a lifetime event to see the plane that this wonderful American hero landed,” she said.
Though the Maryland State Highway Administration warned motorists to steer clear of the Beltway’s outer loop as the plane passed through to avoid delays, traffic was moving at normal speeds as the truck passed under Reisterstown Road at about 10:20 a.m.
The fuselage's voyage can be monitored from the Carolinas Air Museum's Twitter feed.
