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US Aviation Safety Streak Still Alive!

Did you hear a plane crashed in the Hudson River? All 155 people on US Airways Flight 1549 Thursday survived, though a flight attendant suffered a broken leg. Without overlooking the extraordinary efforts of the crew and the fact that the airline is out one very expensive Airbus jet, we're calling this the trendiest air disaster in recent memory. Let us count the ways:

Everyone Lived: Can we just repeat that? A jet crashed into a river full of icy water and everyone made it out alive. Maybe we shouldn't be so surprised, given that US-based carriers are setting impossible-to-believe safety records.

You Heard about the Crash on Twitter: What Boing Boing called "a fantastic, iconic shot" didn't come from a news outlet or TV channel, it came from a Twitter user who snapped passengers huddling on a wing and floating on a raft from his ferry. We've said that the future will be microblogged, and the photo so far has garnered more than 140,000 views.

Banks Are Toxic: Turns out more than 20 of the 150 passengers on Flight 1549 worked for Bank of America, which has its headquarters in Charlotte. Most employees probably figured it couldn't get worse than a momentous drop in the value of their own stock or trying to wiggle bailout money from Congress. That was before an A320 ditched in a river!

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