Here’s one way to make a point. A former government employee dangled for several hours from New York’s Tappan Zee Bridge with a protest sign yesterday, backing up traffic for miles before police safely got him down. Michael Davitt, 54, of Garnerville, N.Y., had been upset about losing his job with the Rockland County mental [...]
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In another case of wonderful parenting, LaShanda Armstrong, a mother, drove herself and three of her four kids into the Hudson River on Tuesday afternoon. A fourth child managed to escape from the van after it went underwater. Police believe the incident is related to a domestic dispute that took place at Armstrong’s home in [...]
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The body of Joseph Cerniglia, a chef once featured on Gordon Ramsay‘s Kitchen Nightmares reality show, was found floating in the Hudson River after reportedly jumping of the George Washington Bridge. Cerniglia, a married father-of-three, was pulled from the river after an apparent suicide. Police responded to a 911 call indicating that there was a [...]
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Holy ship! Workers at the World Trade Center site in New York have found what looks to be a 32-foot-long ship’s hull that was once used in the 18th century as part of the fill that extended the lower Manhattan area into the Hudson River. Officials hope that the artifact can be fully retrieved by [...]
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UPDATE: You can now purchase the book below. Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, hero of the ill-fated flight 1549 that he landed in the Hudson River, has also landed a $3.2 million two-book deal with HarperCollins’ William Morrow imprint. Sullenberger, who just recently returned to the air, will write a memoir that discusses that miraculous U.S. [...]
Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger got right back up on that horse. The heroic captain of ill-fated flight 1549, a flight that ended up making a dramatic emergency landing in the Hudson River earlier this year, climbed back into the pilot’s chair on Thursday morning. This is his first commercial flight since the Hudson River incident. “Ladies [...]
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Video footage has just been released from the mid-air collision over the Hudson River earlier this month. It seems that an Italian man experimenting with his new video camera managed to capture footage of the plane-helicopter collision. The single-engine plane was hit by a helicopter, sending both aircrafts into the river. The plane, a Piper [...]
One person has died on Saturday after a small plane and Liberty Harbor Sightseeing Tours helicopter crashed in mid-air. Both aircrafts have fallen into the Hudson River in Manhattan. Officials confirm that the first casualty has been recovered by firefighters. A diving rescue team is attempting to recover the other survivors. Just before noon EDT, [...]
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A friend of mine just e-mailed this to me, and I’ve got to say it’s pretty amazing. This video painstakingly recreates the emergency landing of Flight 1549 in the Hudson River. It’s amazing to see how they synced this up with the actual audio from the landing. The pilot had literally just miliseconds to react [...]
A U.S. Airways plane that was departing from New York City crashed in the Hudson River earlier today. It sounds as though the crash was caused by a bird flying into engine. Apparently all passengers were rescued from the Hudson. Now THAT must have been a bone-chilling experience, on multiple levels. As has been the [...]
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