Venable corporate partner James Hanks Jr. in Baltimore was a passenger on US Airways Flight 1549, which crash-landed in New York’s Hudson River almost seven years ago.
The incident, quickly dubbed the “Miracle on the Hudson,” is the subject of a new movie out Friday called “Sully,” starring Tom Hanks as pilot Chesley Sullenberger III. Hanks is unrelated to Venable’s Hanks, although the two have some things in common, besides sharing roles in one of the more bizarre aviation accidents in history.
