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 Thu Jan 15, 2009 4:21 pm Airplane in Hudson River after failed takeoff, FAA says |
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| Quote: | NEW YORK (CNN) -- Emergency officials are responding to a downed plane in the Hudson River in New York City, according to the city fire and police departments.
The plane entered the water Thursday afternoon following a failed takeoff, the FAA says.
1 of 2 US Airways Flight 1549, an Airbus A320 headed from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Charlotte, North Carolina, was down in the river after a failed takeoff, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The U.S. Coast Guard said units were also responding, and a ferry on site was dropping life jackets into the water.
The plane approached the water at a gradual angle and made a big splash, according to a witness watching from an office building.
"It wasn't going particularly fast. It was a slow contact with the water that it made," said the witness, Ben VonKlemperer.
An Airbus A320 can hold a maximum of 179 passengers and a flight crew of two, depending on the configuration.
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Watching CNN, it's seeming that they got everyone out and the only injury was a cut on a crewmember.
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