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New York

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Wed Jan 15, 2014, 07:17 PM Jan 2014

5-year anniversary of the 'Miracle on the Hudson'

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Wednesday marks five years since the Miracle on the Hudson, when US Airways Flight 1549 crash landed on the river with no fatalities.

Standing in frigid temperatures at the time and watching a plane with people standing on the wings floating down the Hudson was a sight many could not believe.

Five years later, those people remember it like it was yesterday.

"We have much to be thankful for. Much was saved that day," said Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, pilot.

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=9394095