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Re:Tracking Flight Path of US Airways 1549 by asmithmd1 on Friday January 16, 2009 @10:09AM (#436683)
Pretty cool; but amateurs can do almost as well with Google maps and Google Earth: http://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2009/01/short-flight-of-...

Teterboro must have been really tempting, a successful ditching is anything but a sure thing, if one of the wings had caught the water before the other the plane would have started tumbling at over 100mph.

Re:Tracking Flight Path of US Airways 1549 by weegee on Friday January 16, 2009 @11:36AM (#436810)
the pilot is said to be an experienced glider pilot, probably helped in this situation