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...over northern New York City. The choice of landing in water likely seemed the best option considering those circumstances. Pilots are trained to bring planes in for a smooth landing on water the same way that they would on land, keeping landing gear stowed to make the plane more boat-like. They also have different ditching checklists depending on whether they are above or below 10,000 feet - Flight 1549 was at about 3,000 feet, leaving Sullenberger and Skiles a shorter checklist. But experts also note that a controlled landing on water can be more dangerous than a similar...
...Somalia Pirate Booty The Somali pirates who had held a Saudi oil tanker captive for nearly two months released the ship after receiving a reported $3 million ransom on Jan. 9. All did not end well for the pirates, however: reports said several of them drowned when their boat capsized as they returned to shore. The tanker, the Sirius Star, is the largest ship ever hijacked and had been held since Nov. 15. It was carrying about $100 million worth of crude...
...little after 5 p.m., the plane had been towed to the Manhattan shoreline. In the few minutes after the crash, all passengers apparently got off safely and only a few had to be hospitalized. All those were in stable condition. Said Weiner, the eyewitness: "You could see the [rescue] boats got there in two minutes. You could see it looked like the people were getting off and onto the boat...
...Ferry accidents are all too common in Asia partly because of geographic and demographic circumstances. Countries such as Indonesia and the Philippines are heavily populated archipelagos with thousands of far-flung islands. It's axiomatic that their masses of poor citizens travel in the cheapest way possible: by boat. The sheer number of Asians traveling across open waters in a part of the world where typhoons are frequent increases the odds that mishaps will occur and death tolls will be high...
...willy-nilly, destroying animals who were just doing what animals do," says Guest's son Daniel, who had been snorkling with his father on the day he went missing. But others are outraged. "The shark had the man in his stomach, digesting him, and (authorities) are just driving the boat over and around him," says Hislop, who is an outspoken critic of the government's preservation policies and runs a tourist shark display featuring models of man-eaters on Queensland's coast...