DISQUS

Cotton Rohrscheib · 11 months ago

It's amazing that these folks are all alive! That pilot did an awesome job landing that plane.
It's funny to see that in the midst of disaster, that Twitter is one of the first things that people reach for. If I were there, I would sooo bet Twittering too...

MG Siegler · 11 months ago

Yeah, it's becoming more and more a part of these breaking stories, but the real interesting thing here was that awesome picture sent via Twitpic to Twitter. Expect to see a lot more of that.

Eric Eldon · 11 months ago

The question is: when will we reach the point that Twitter coverage of disasters is so normal that it's no longer in and of itself a news story.

MG Siegler · 11 months ago

yeah normally i wouldn't have hopped on this, didn't cover denver crash tweets for example, but the picture quickly making the rounds on twitter was just too good. also i needed a distraction from my nightmare windows 7 crash situation.

jacobmullins · 11 months ago

Thanks, MG, for the gratutious and totally unnecessary inclusion of Windows 7 in this comment. @anandiyer would be proud. ;-)

MG Siegler · 11 months ago

you bet buddy.

tweetip · 11 months ago

1st Tweets Timeline/Chart ~ USAirways commuter plane crash in Hudson River... http://tweetip.us/lkuiu

MG Siegler · 11 months ago

Nice, thanks.

Sean · 11 months ago

Check out this Twitter + News Search on "us airways"

http://tweetnews.appspot.com/fresh?q=us+airways

Provides the latest authoritative results with twitter messages (powered by BOSS).

Sachin Balagopalan · 11 months ago

Citizen journalism at it's best IMO .. http://bit.ly/LPvD

Mikey · 11 months ago

Amazing pic. What was it taken with?

MG Siegler · 11 months ago

An iPhone.

Engago team · 11 months ago

The world has become a village thanks to Twitter.
http://bit.ly/WYzv
News is power.
News is now captured and reported by the people and received by the people who want to know.

David Dows · 11 months ago

What cracks me up is the comment from alicecollins on twitter, "HOLY CRAP remind me to never fly with U.S Airways... ". I would tend to agree more with danielamos: Note to self: Fly US Airways."

Apparently, Alice is ignorant of the fact that there are about 4000 bird strikes per year. This could have happened to any plane belonging to any airline. I suppose she would rather be on an airline whose pilot just lets the plane flow into a field or a few dozen buildings.

It's too bad she wasn't on the Eastern Airline flight from Boston to Philadelphia in 1960, in which my neighbor Bob Frankenfield as among the 62 passengers killed, when the jet ran off the end of the runway and into the water. Although he was an excellent swimmer, he apparently was knocked unconscious, or pinned in his seat and couldn't get out of his wet seatbelt before he drowned.