Capt. 'Sully's' plane headed to NC museum, by way of Maryland highways

A large part of the US Airways plane that was landed safely on New York City's Hudson River after being disabled spent part of the Tuesday morning rush hour on the Baltimore Beltway.

The Maryland State Highway Administration said the plane, an Airbus A320 that had been US Air Flight 1549 in 2009, was being moved a museum in North Carolina. It's fuselage was being transportation on a truck that required two lanes as it moved along Interstate 695 between I-95 and I-70.

The truck has a maximum speed of 50 miles per hour, the administration said.

The agency was live tweeting its route on its @MDSHA Twitter page Tuesday.

"Capt. Sully's plane is on the move from Perryville," one update at about 10 a.m. said.

"Large load carrying plane just crossed Susquehanna River-now in Harford County," said another update that followed shortly thereafter.

Sullenberger became a national figure after both of the engines in his Airbus lost power when the plane flew through a flock of birds on Jan. 15, 2009. Sullenberger realized he did not have the time to return to nearby LaGuardia Airport, where the plane had departed for Charlotte, N.C., so the pilot landed the plane in middle of the Hudson.

Passengers and crew were rescued by ferries. Many of the 155 who survived the emergency landing stood on the aircraft’s wings as the plane slowly sank into the river.