Engineering crews began the painstaking process of lifting a downed jetliner from the frigid Hudson River in New York City this evening, and investigators revealed new details about the flight's chilling last minutes before the crash.
With floodlights lighing the area in lower Manhattan, workers were planning to lift the fuselage of the US Airways jet one foot at a time, to allow the water that filled the plane to drain out as it is removed from the icy river.
The removal of the plane originally was to have begun at 10 a.m. this morning, but the effort was complicated by ice floes moving down the river, extremely low temperatures and a strong river current that pinned half of the plane beneath pilings at the pier where it was towed Thursday.
US Airways flight 1549 ditched into the Hudson River Thursday.
At a news conference held by the National Transportation Safety Board this evening, investigators said the pilot and copilot described how moments after takeoff from Laguardia Airport, they looked up and saw they had flown into a flock of geese.
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