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The 9/11 decade
On September 11, 2001 nearly 3000 people were killed in the worst attack on U.S. soil. We look back on how the last decade was shaped by the dramatic events of that day.
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Hudson River plane crash: Breaking news from the office window
The Reuters bureau in Times Square has a striking view of the Hudson River and New Jersey, but on Thursday the scenery became an afterthought, as a US Airways jet splashed down in the frigid waters right before our eyes.
“I was on the phone when I saw a big splash in the middle of the river and realized it was a plane,” said Reuters correspondent Scott DiSavino. “I put the phone down and yelled, ‘Hey, a plane just crashed into the Hudson River!’”
The bureau sprang into action. Photographers sprinted out of the office toward the river, a few long blocks away. Those of us who had the earliest and clearest view gathered around a reporter sending headlines out to Reuters news clients, dictating details about what was happening.
The Passur AirportMonitor site shows the plane took of from Laguardia airport and headed north over the Bronx while climbing to about 2400 feet. Above Yonkers, the plane took a sharp left turn, bringing it over the Hudson River, and it quickly lost altitude. Radar showed the last known altitude at about 500 feet. (Video capture from Passur.com)
As we could see from our windows, the plane splashed down somewhere near the Intrepid aircraft carrier, docked on the west coast of midtown Manhattan. Ferries immediately sped out to rescue passengers who were standing on the plane’s wings, some of them in knee-deep frigid water.
Earlier indications were that the the plane had flown through a flock of geese, resulting in an explosion in one of the engines. All passengers were rescued.
I want to express that a week before xmas, I had a vivid dream of a gathering outside a river on a bright day and I remember the sun bouncing off downtown buildings, we were at some sort of parade or celebration everyone was happy we were all staring up at fireworks of some sort, then a clear image boom, a airplan fell from the sky into a body of water and it was and I quote the words in my dream “ferry boats” in the water, everyone scattered into neatby buildings , I then rememered peeking out and looking closely that an empty airplane sat in the water near a red ferry boat and I kept asking people how do i get back to the other side of some sort of either bridge or the place I was and they kept saying take the ferry across take the ferry, and the dream was so real,, I awoke and I told someone about the dream, time passed,,, and the day I saw the images of the hudson crash, I knew it was it, I had a vision of this and I want to share this with the world, God is real and powerful!!!
