i just want to send a shout out

to the pilot (Chesley B. Sullenberger III,) and crew of the us airways jet that landed in the hudson yesterday. wow.

a shout out to the passengers as well. from accounts i've read, they helped each other and made sure all were safe

and another shout out to the boats that came VERY quickly to the aid of that downed plane as well as ALL of the rescue personnel.

it was freezing cold in the northeast yesterday. all i kept thinking about were all of those people in the water.

thank the goddess no lives were lost

All 155 Escape Jet’s Plunge Into Hudson
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
A US Airways jetliner with 155 people aboard lost power in both engines, possibly from striking birds, after taking off from La Guardia Airport on Thursday afternoon. The pilot ditched in the icy Hudson River and all on board were rescued by a flotilla of converging ferries and emergency boats, the authorities said. What might have been a catastrophe in New York — one that evoked the feel if not the scale of the Sept. 11 attack — was averted by a pilot’s quick thinking and deft maneuvers, and by the nearness of rescue boats, a combination that witnesses and officials called miraculous.

As stunned witnesses watched from high-rise buildings on both banks, the Airbus A320, which had risen to 3,200 feet over the Bronx and banked left, came downriver, its fuselage lower than many apartment terraces and windows, in a carefully executed touchdown shortly after 3:30 p.m. that sent up huge plumes of water at midstream, between West 48th Street in Manhattan and Weehawken, N.J. ...........

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Passengers stood on the wings as they awaited rescue.

Photo: Gary Hershorn/Reuters

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The scene in the Hudson River.

Photo: Josh Haner/The New York Times