First US Airways Crash Photo Captured On iPhone

[onehandle]

Source: TechSource

NEW YORK - Moments after US Airways flight 1549 crash landed into New York's frigid Hudson River, citizen journalist Janis Krums posted the first photo from the scene of the crash online to Twitter which he captured with his iPhone. Krums, from Sarasota, Florida snapped the photo from on board a passenger ferry en route to assist in passenger rescue efforts.

"There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy." Krums posted via Twitter's TwitPic service.

Read more: http://www.iphonesavior.com/2009/01/first-us-airways-crash-photo-captured-on-iphone-.html

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I knew that that photo was shot with an iPhone. I know the aspect ratio very well.

[liberalmuse]

1. Beautiful!

I saw that photo last night and believe it is the most incredible photo taken of the crash. To know that it was taken on an iPhone makes it all the more sweet. (Yes, I'm one of those Apple fanatics).

[Doctor Cynic]

6. But if the photo was taken with a Zune you'd be angry at Billy G.

[1]

2. yeah, but was the iphone photographer a UNION member. that is the only thing that matters. n/t

[razors edge]

3. Well, it does look to me like

the photographer was taking pics of the skyline and a distressed plane, bush could still get him a few nights at gitmo.

[Frank Booth]

4. Who knew trust fund kids were capable of taking pictures??

[Psephos]

7. He's not a trust-fund kid, although I don't see why it matters. n/t

[Lorien]

8. Why the snide comment? Where does it say that he has a trust fund?

I swear, the hostility and negativity around here is just stunning sometimes.

[Regret My New Name]

25. uhhh, he owns an iphone and he has a domain name with his name in it...

That's a surefire sign of trust fund kid.

[geomon666]

5. Aren't there pictures of the plane still in the air?

How can this be the first photo if that's the case?

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. " Aren't there pictures of the plane still in the air?" yes of coarse, this is a "crash" photo

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it ain't in the air anymore . .

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. 'First' iPhone picture..... get it? iPhone picture!

I posted a security camera video of the plane landing
and the evacuation in DU's video section

[onehandle]

11. This photo was the picked up off of twitter and sent around to all the major news services.

This happened right after the ditch. It was even found and posted here by a DUer. Same thing happened with a plane going off of a runway the other week. An iPhone and Twitter.

[SpikeTss]

12. Incredible!

[ohio2007]

13. 10 min video from Coast Guard station catching the splash and response

Hudson Crash from Coast Guard Camera

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9e6_1232166872

[pointblank]

14. Awesome video

Man, it seems like that plane hardly made a splash...I know its far away, but still...

[Gin]

15. imagine being on that slippery wing in freezing water.......then the wake caused by

the rescue boats had to be scary too....it was miraculous nobody died.... .....what a video!

[ohio2007]

16. You see what the first guy that scampered out to the tip of the right wing did ?

he jumped into the water !

I would have posted the link in its own thread but that site isn't recognized for "breaking news" value around here.

lucky no ice was floating in the water during the splashdown.
imo, the story would have had a slightly different ending.

I heard on the radio the pilots wife was quoted as saying her husband was a pilots pilot that deeply understood 'the art of the airplane'

Ya think he will get laid off the next go round ? lol

[veritasvg]

18. Frankly...

...I don't think he needs the money. This guy lives ten minutes from me and the people who live in that neighborhood aren't hurting.

He's never gonna need US Airways again to make a living. He's almost retired as it is. He turns 58 next week and they're done at 60.

There was apparently some talk of him teaching at UC-Berkeley.

[tabatha]

21. You must be close to Mt Diablo.

Great place.

[veritasvg]

23. Yes...

...I can see it from my window. Gorgeous.

[tabatha]

24. I visited it in 2007

going up through Danville - so I knew exactly where Sully was from.

One of the photos I took of the Diablo Fairy Lantern ended up in a foreign science magazine.

[Regret My New Name]

26. Wow, they were pretty quick to react and pick them up...

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. iPhones have great cameras

[Ichingcarpenter]

19. Coast Guard Video of landing and rescue in DU video section

Posted yesterday
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=260815&mesg_id=260815

[ohio2007]

22. what "political statement" was being made for the video ? Personal rights being violated

lol

[ogneopasno]

20. "Citizen journalist."

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