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 Saratoga PA-32, [...]

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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, a [...]

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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 and make [...]

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Now here’s something you don’t see every day.
Question: What do you do with an airliner once you have pulled it out of the Hudson River?
Answer: You tow it down the streets of New York, of course.
These are some amazing pictures Flight 1549 (what was left of it anyway) being pulled down the streets of New [...]

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We’ve seen the photos and the videos, we’ve seen the video game, but until now, we hadn’t heard the audio.
Today, the FAA has released the transcript and audio between Flight 1549 and air traffic control in the moments prior to the jet plane’s emergency landing in the Hudson River.
Pilot Chesley B. ‘Sully’ Sullenberger [...]

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If it wasn’t enough for you to read about the miraculous landing of flight 1549 on the Hudson River and follow the action via sites like Twitter, you can now play the video game.
The flight 1549 game “Hero on the Hudson” gives you the following scenario:
“Both engines are out.  The plane [...]

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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 [...]

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