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Plane lands on the Hudson & Twitter documents it all

 
Wednesday night, I took the red-eye back to Boston, and wondered during the safety demonstration: Would the passengers on board a commercial passenger jet really have much of a chance of surviving an emergency landing on the water? (link)

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