WNBC reporting FAA Confirms all passengers and crew members have been safely rescued…thankfully....

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That was one amazing piece of flying to land without significant damage to the plane.

Did you notice that the real heroes of the day are the "water taxi" people. There were 7 of them on scene before the first "first responder" arrived. Way to go.

Well, I guess if you have to end up in a river - the Hudson's a pretty good one. There's so many ferries and tugs on the river at any given time - it looks like quite a few of them pitched in. Gonna be some COLD people coming ashore. Glad everyone's OK.

There was a time (mid-'70s) when there were no ferries on the Hudson. Now there are many -- I've taken them many times.

Imagine what it must have been like to be a passenger -- on the plane, or even on one of the ferries on the water at the time.

Of course, that's 9/11 country, and so it may not be the scariest thing some of them have ever seen.

My personal nightmare - in the water in a plane or a car. It's a phobia.

Although the hubris of the aviation community (mostly small planes and helicopters) has many times annoyed me in regard to my participation in talks with the Port of Portland and its users about various issues, I have to say, with humble respect ...

... thank God for that pilot, his expertise, his calm (imagine essentially landing a huge jet in water, landing it belly down like a glider and apparently following procedures that kept the fuselage afloat) and what a wonderful result.

It brought tears to my eyes. Really.

I have newly acquired respect for the buoyancy of those bottom seat cushions.