Five Years Later, Still a Miracle

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Five Years Later, Still a Miracle

It’s hard to believe that today marks the five-year anniversary of the “Miracle on the Hudson” flight. It was on this day that Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger and his First Officer, Jeffrey Skiles operating flight 1549, an A320 (registration N106US) from New York’s LaGuardia bound for Seattle via Charlotte struck a flock of birds approximately […]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nycav...~4/1Zf3k0Idx2M
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I was fortunate to be able to get out and photograph much of the aftermath of the incident...

Tied up to the seawall in Battery Park hours after the ditching.

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The following day, with NYPD standing by.

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Out of the river and onto a barge. Several of us waited all day on Saturday (in 20F temps) for them to lift her out of the water, only to have it happen after dark.

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On a barge in NJ

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At the Carolinas Aviation Museum in CLT

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