The Big Picture: Lucky escape

US Airways Airbus A320

A US airliner on a domestic flight with 155 people aboard ditched into the Hudson River in New York City.

All 150 passengers, three flight attendants and two pilots were rescued in freezing weather, with a number later treated for unspecified injuries.

Photo by Sipa Press / Rex Features


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