The Plane! The Plane!

By now, I’m assuming you’ve heard about the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River yesterday right along side Manhattan. Most of us (even those of us who were in Manhattan when it happened) watched it on the news, but our own Leap Days author, Katherine Lanpher saw it first hand. She blogged about it yesterady on the Anderson Cooper 360 blog:

The plane floated past my apartment - I live about two blocks off the Hudson in the West Village - and when I first saw it I didn’t realize what i was looking at, the tugs must be pulling it down the river, it’s moving so fast, surrounded by a flotilla of ferries, tugs and police boats, the latter still zipping in circles with their blue lights flashing…

Luckilly, everyone was okay in this crash (save for some birds). The most interesting thing about this, though, comes from how the story was reported. Most of the major news outlets have offices not too far from where the plane crashed, so it was covered extensively on television and on the internet. But it’s these eyewitness accounts and photos that seem to tell the better story. Thanks to the internet, we can get them very quickly now. Did anyone else see what happened? What did you see from where you were?

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