Professor comments on NYC plane’s amazing landing

By: Web Staff

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NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. -- It appears a flock of birds ultimately brought down a U.S. Airways plane that landed in the Hudson River on Friday by getting caught up in the craft's engines.

We spoke with Kenneth Visser, a professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Clarkson University, who says landing the way the pilots did, especially under those conditions, is an incredibly difficult task.