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...JENNIFER HUDSON to sing national anthem at Super Bowl...
...Daddy, the plane turned into a boat.' SOPHIA SOSA, a 4-year-old traveling with her family on the US Airways flight that was forced to ditch in the Hudson River...
...plane crash is not a natural time for optimism. But maybe it should be. The ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River, coming in the dark of winter in a country short on confidence, was more revealing than it was astonishing...
...case of flight 1549, the pilots of the Airbus A320 made a decision to land in the Hudson River after apparently losing power in both engines. In aviation terminology, that type of landing is referred to as ditching, and as far as jetliners go it remains a fairly rare event. Curtis could only find three other instances when a flight crew of a commercial jetliner intentionally ditched a plane on water - and one of those occurrences that Curtis found, a 1963 incident involving an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu124 en route from Estonia to Moscow, yielded a 100% survival rate...
Photos: The Hudson River Plane Crash