A US Airways Airbus 320 carrying more than 150 people on board landed on the Hudson River after flocks of birds collided into one of their engines, New York Times reported.
The incident claimed no deaths. The passengers and crew, NYT reported, were saved by police boats and helicopters, as well as tourists' ferries.
The pilot reportedly walked twice around the cabin to make sure no one was left inside before he joined hundreds other standing shoulder-to-shoulder on the plane's wings, waiting for rescue.
NYT wrote "A Quick Rescue Kept Death Toll at Zero" as one of its headlines.
Shivers are still running down my spine. There might be something more when in a few weeks' time the plane recorder is out and investigated, but regardless of what caused the mishap, this is what rescue effort should be everywhere in the world.
And of course, kudos to the pilot for "ditching" the plane smoothly on a freezing midtown river. If it happens here, we'll surely be looking at numbers of bodies recovered from the river bed, as well as families waiting anxiously in the airport for at least the names of the passengers on board.
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