US Airways jet lifted out of Hudson River

China Daily | Updated: 2009-01-19 07:36

A crane moves US Airways flight 1549 from its mooring along a seawall in lower Manhattan in New York to a barge late Saturday evening. Flight 1549 crashed into the Hudson River on Thursday. All 155 people aboard the flight survived. AP

Salvage crews hoisted a US Airways jetliner from the Hudson River and onto a barge late on Saturday, three days after its pilot made what he told investigators was a split-second decision to attempt a water landing to avoid a possibly "catastrophic" crash over populated areas.