Engine still attached to plane in Hudson River
NEW YORK (CNN) — The right engine of a US Airways plane that landed in the Hudson River Thursday is still attached to the aircraft, the National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday.
US Airways flight 1549 still remains in the icy Hudson River on Saturday.
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Previously, the agency said both engines were on the river bottom. The NTSB on Saturday said divers did not see the right engine earlier because of low visibility in the water.
Authorities said they would begin trying to remove the plane from the icy river about 2 p.m.
Police already have recovered an aircraft door, 15 pieces of luggage, flotation cushions and other parts of the aircraft.
All belongings and debris will be turned over to the NTSB as part of the investigation, police said.
The flight data and cockpit voice recorders — both critical to determining exactly what happened during the brief flight Thursday — remained Friday on the aircraft, which was still largely submerged in the Hudson River but was secured to moorings.
Strong currents and cold water thwarted divers’ efforts viagra rezeptfrei to retrieve the recorders from the tail section of the jetliner, NTSB spokeswoman Kitty Higgins said.
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The engines — when the missing one is found — also will be examined as part of the investigation into what happened, including the possibility of bird strikes.
"I don’t want to characterize anything at this point about this particular accident because we are just at the beginning stages," Higgins said, adding that this accident would be the first "in a very long time" where bird strikes might have been involved.
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Also Saturday, authorities released audio and transcripts of two 911 calls from people who said they saw that the plane
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