All safe after plane splashes into river
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.”
The pilot ditched his disabled jetliner into the frigid Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after a collision with a flock of birds apparently knocked out both engines. The plane was submerged in the icy wate...
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