Ok, so I spent my saturday sitting out on the piers by Exchange Place in Jersey City to see the US Airways Airbus A320 from Flight 1549 from LaGuardia to Charlotte be pulled out the Hudson River. I was there from like what, 10 AM or so, expecting the plane to be pulled out shortly. Then it got to Noon and was told some interesting info which was they found the engine that fell off on river bed in the vicinity of the Lincoln Tunnel, and that they wasn't going to pull out the plane til 2 PM. So I hoped on HBLR and went to Newport real quick to get some hot chocolate and some snacks and went back. From there on til sunset, me and a few others just stood around, tried to stay warm waiting and waiting, and ditched around 5 PM when it got too dark for a shot. I was disappointed they pulled it out overnight, but was glad to see it was still around after they pulled it out and I was able to get a shot of it this morning. Without further ado....
Enjoy!
This was taken on Friday in Battery Park City.
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Now to saturday.
This was the crane to be used arriving.
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The crane settling in.
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Look closely in the water just right of the crane.
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This is a few hours later, just waiting.
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This was the scene around 3PM or so.
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And this was the scene last I left it.
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Now to this morning, basically the plane on display.
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Hope you enjoyed, comments are always welcomed!
Pablo, thank you very much. That's more information than I saw on any media down here including the newspapers. It seems like when the media discovered that there were no fatalities (following their mantra- "If it bleeds it leads") they lost interest in the story. Of course, I am also a big ship fan so nautical photographs are always fun. Are you thawed out yet?
Quote from: WMAveteran on January 23, 2009, 12:38:39 AM
Pablo, thank you very much. That's more information than I saw on any media down here including the newspapers. It seems like when the media discovered that there were no fatalities (following their mantra- "If it bleeds it leads") they lost interest in the story. Of course, I am also a big ship fan so nautical photographs are always fun. Are you thawed out yet?
No problem! The media in the NY area couldn't stop talking about it for at least a week, which was nice.
And I spent the rest of that weekend defrosting so I was fine by tuesday!
Ironic that Weeks provided the crane to lift an airplane out of the water - they are the firm who provides the barges that haul old New York subway cars out to sea and drop them into the drink. :P