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U.S. Airways Flight 1549, Twitter and An Amazing Photo

Thu, Jan 15th, 2009 |

First things first: Everyone on U.S. Airways flight 1549, which landed in the Hudson River this afternoon a few minutes after it took off from LaGuardia, appears to be safe. Amazing.

Second thing: I learned this via Twitter this afternoon, via fellow Twitterer Dave Martin, who was "re-tweeting" information he’d picked up via the Chicago CBS TV station’s Twitter account, which was passing along information it had received from CBS News.

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