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This afternoon U.S. Airways flight 1549 took off from New York’s LaGuardia airport headed to Charlotte, North Carolina. After being in the air for six minutes, the pilot,Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger III of Danville, Calif., was able to crash land the aircraft in the Hudson River after losing both engines due to geese flying into the engines.

Luckily everyone on board survived, all 155 passengers, the crew, and the pilots. During the rescue passengers were seen literally waiting on the wings of the crashed and still floating plane. Within minutes ferry boats and the coast guard were on the scene to rescue those waiting.

After the news broke this afternoon, media agencies began to let us know how often aircrafts hit birds. The odds of your flight hitting a bird is 10,000:1. Those odds are pretty scary, but usually the only aircrafts that are impared by birds are small planes, not commercial jets.

Here are some pictures from the AP from today’s crash:

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