Hoisting the Plane Out of the River

Photo from the source, Kenneth in the (212)

I just think it's amazing that we have the tools to hoist one million pounds of anything out of a river.

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A River Ran Through It

The Times reports that late Saturday night, "crews at Battery Park City had rigged the plane -- weighing an estimated one million pounds -- and lifted it out of the Hudson. They planned to load it onto a barge for investigators.

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Videos of the US Airways Plane Crash in the Hudson

There are finally videos available of the amazing "ditching" of the US Airways jet into the Hudson River. Take a look. . .

Jet Ditches in Hudson River, Everyone Lives!

Images from source, CNN

Being married to an airline employee, I've always taken the phrase "water landing" to be an oxymoron. That's a crash. Because usually, they don't work very well. But the pilot of a US Airways jet pulled it off, and did so with no deaths and only one person with serious injuries (two broken legs). It's flat-out amazing, and turns a horror story into a good news one.

I'm presently watching The Rachel Maddow Show's coverage of the event, which is fascinating. And--since everybody is for the most part OK--I just have to mention that the expert that Rachel is talking to is Captain Ober. I wonder how many "Turkish prison" jokes he gets?

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'Miraculous' landing in frigid Hudson

Passengers scrambled to get off a sinking jetliner after it went down Thursday in New York's Hudson River with 155 people on board. The US Airways jet apparently experienced a bird strike while en route to Charlotte. All of the passengers survived. "I think that's miraculous," a passenger told CNN. . .

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