This story was reported by Marc Beja and Daniel Edward Rosen, and staff writers Mitchell Freedman, Eden Laikin, Melanie Lefkowitz, Kathy Kerr and Rocco Parascandola, and written by Beth Holland.
11:37 PM EST, January 15, 2009
Airline passengers are rescued from a US Airways Airbus 320 jetliner that safely ditched in the frigid waters of the Hudson River.
From the bitter cold and ice enveloping New York City, they were headed south on US Airways Flight 1549, south to Charlotte N.C . Some were making the two-hour flight on business, some for the pleasure of a golf trip where the day's high would not be 15 degrees. One 85-year-old woman was flying the 660 miles for her great-grandson's birthday.A number of the passengers weren't supposed to be on Flight 1549 at all. Their earlier flights had been canceled because of the weather.So these 155 souls -- passengers, pilots and flight crew -- took off from LaGuardia Airport at 3:24 p.m. In the next six minutes, Flight 1549 crash-landed into the Hudson."There was a sudden jerk, it just felt like turbulence," said Bill Zuhoski, 23, of Cutchogue, who was in seat 23A, well back of the wing on the plane's left side. "No one thought anything of it until we started to go down."
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