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'Miracle on the Hudson'

View our gallery of the crash—and rescue—of Flight 1549.

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Steven Day / AP Photo
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Airline passengers wait to board a ferry to be rescued from the wings of the US Airways Airbus 320 jetliner that safely ditched in the frigid waters of the Hudson River.

Steven Day / AP Photo
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Passengers in an inflatable raft move away from the plane.

Bebeto Matthews / AP Photo
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Passengers disembark the plane, in this photo taken by a passenger on a ferry.

Janis Krums / AP Photo
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Passengers are rescued from the fuselage.

Eric Thayer / Reuters
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Rope is thrown to a passenger raft.

Eric Thayer / Reuters
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Passengers wait to be rescued their plane splashed into the water.

Eric Thayer / Reuters
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Passengers in an inflatable raft move away from the plane towards a ferry.

Bebeto Matthews / AP Photo
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Rescue crews secure the plane as it floats in the Hudson River.

Chris McGrath / Getty Images
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The plane rests against a retaining wall.

Louis Lanzano / AP Photo
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A passenger is helped to a waiting ambulance.

Liz Schultz / AP Photo
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Survivors wait for a bus to take them from a First Aid center in Weehawken, N.J. back to La Guardia Airport.

Stuart Ramson / AP Photo
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The plane's wing juts out of the water.

Edouard H. R. Gluck / AP Photo
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Sandy List, left, gets a kiss from her husband Nelson, right, after arriving in Charlotte, N.C., on a flight from New York.

Chuck Burton / AP Photo