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All safe after plane splashes into river

By The Associated Press | Modified: January 16, 2009 at 5:10 am | Published: January 16, 2009

photo - Airline passengers wait to board a ferry to be rescued on the wings of a US Airways Airbus 320 jetliner that safely ditched in the frigid waters of the Hudson River in New York, Thursday Jan. 15, 2009 after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines. All 155 people on board survived. (AP Photo/Steven Day)

Airline passengers wait to board a ferry to be rescued on the wings of a US Airways Airbus 320 jetliner that safely ditched in the frigid waters of the Hudson River in New York, Thursday Jan. 15, 2009 after a flock of birds knocked out both its engines. All 155 people on board survived. (AP Photo/Steven Day)

NEW YORK — Jeff Kolodjay of Norwalk, Conn., put his head in his lap and started praying when he heard the captain of a US Airways say, "Brace for impact because we’re going down.”

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