Passenger Swam To Safety
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Today’s New York Post has great coverage of the US Airways crash in the Hudson. There’s a detailed story on the incident itself with lots of photos, a map of the flightpath and a profile of the pilot, Chesley B “Sully” Sullenberger III, who just happened to be a safety expert and experienced glider–which comes in very handy when you lose both engines on a 169,000-pound plane over New York City. But the real highlights are the accounts of how individual passengers survived, including a man who found himself neck deep in 36-degree water inside the aircraft and another who swam ashore. The funny thing is, I was only about a mile away when the whole thing happened, yet the first I heard about it was when I got home an hour or two later and glanced at Twitter to see that someone in Manchester, England, had posted about it.
