US Airways Plane crashed into the Hudson River today
 

Thursday, January 15, 2009 | 4:02 PM
By Scott Curkin; Eyewitness News
NEW YORK (WABC) -- Eyewitness News has learned a plane has crashed into the Hudson River.
The plane is an Airbus 320, US Airways flight 1549 from LaGuardia to Charlotte. There were 146 passengers on board the flight, along with 5 crew members. There is no report on their conditions.
The plane went down near 57th street. The plane took off from LaGuardia at 3:11 p.m.
There are reports that a bird struck the plane on takeoff, however that is not confirmed at this time.
Ferries were rescuing passengers, some who were seen standing on the wings of the plane. Because of the crash all ferry service is suspended between their 39th terminal in NYC and their Weehawken terminal, across the river in NJ.
The plane was submerged in the icy waters up to the windows, and rescue crews had opened the door and were pulling passengers in yellow life vests from the plane.
The plane was quickly submerged about 30 minutes after the crash.

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Did it say if there were any ideas on how it happened? I know a bird can't take out an airplane lol.

flock of canadian geese. and yes a canadian goose could fubar an airplane engine.

the live shots were pretty crazy. i cant believe the plane was still entact. great job by the pilot.

yup it was due to a flock of geese.

it's crazy how well of a job the pilot did to land/crash the plane

Everybody was rescued.

Crazy crazy crazy.

Read this on CNN, absolutely insane. Thankfully, everyone got off safe and sound, although a little wet.

I never pay attention to those life raft safety instructions in the beginning of my flights... I figured if you crash, you die. I guess I should start...

Nice flying by the pilots

im impressed.

there was a hawaii air flight on which the top of the fuselage blew off, theo nly death was a flight attendent who was sucked out during de-pressurization. Commercial pilots are typically very, very good at handeling stress, and even better at flying the plane.

I was thinking the same thing. That guy deserves a raise!

I just saw some video of this,and it looks like there trying to push the floating plane to land.

or atleast a 6 pack

same here, sometimes i think it would be better to die then float in freezing water for a long time.