Treacherous Conditions Complicate Recovery of Plane
Divers Discover One Attached Engine; Delicate Job of Heavy Lifting Proceeds Cautiously
Passengers who survived the crash of a US Airways plane that made an emergency landing in New York's Hudson River tell their stories.
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By LEE FERRAN
Jan. 17, 2009
Engineering crews began the painstaking process of lifting a downed jetliner from the frigid Hudson River in New York City this evening, and investigators revealed new details about the flight's chilling last minutes before the crash.
With floodlights lighing the area in lower Manhattan, workers were planning to lift the fuselage of the US Airways jet one foot at a time, to allow the water that filled the plane to drain out as it is removed from the icy river.
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