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Birds May have Brought Down Jet in Hudson River

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New York, NY: Anyone on board, or those watching the fate of US Airways Flight 1549 as it plunged into the Hudson River in New York yesterday might be forgiven for invoking memories of a similar plane crash almost 27 years ago to the day. That doomed plane hit a busy bridge before plunging into the Potomac on January 13th 1982. In all, 78 people died in that airplane accident, including four motorists who were crushed when the Boeing 737-222 slammed into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C.

Full post as published by Lawyers and Settlements on January 16, 2009 (boomark / email).

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