Plane Crash Hudson River: Jet crashes into Hudson River -- newsday.com
... Intrepid Museum president Bill White said museum staff immediately ran up to the flight deck of the historic aircraft carrier to see the plane, which had come to rest in the river just north of the museum on 46th Street.
"They skillfully ditched the plane in the water so people could get out. Rafts were deployed," White said. He said the strong outbound current quickly carried the plane and the rescue vessels around it from the upper 40s down to streets in the 20s.
"We saw a rescue swimmer jump from a helicopter into the water," White said. "We could see almost a dozen people up on the left wing, which was pretty much above water when it went past the Intrepid."
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... Before it was moored, the current had been carrying the plane downriver at almost 2 mph, the Coast Guard said. A fuel spill was "an imminent threat," said Petty Officer Barbara Patton. The plane can carry 7,885 gallons of fuel, but probably had less for the relatively short flight from New York to North Carolina....