Photographer Stephen Mallon had full access to the salvaging of flight 1549 from the Hudson River. Great images from interior shots after it was pulled out of the river to the fuselage being loaded on a semi and driven through the streets. 

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This is a must read article from Reuters. Tells the story of photographers getting their images after the US Air crash.

“By the time I got it all together and headed back to the window, the plane had drifted out of sight behind a water tower. Brendan ingested his disk into our remote photo editing system and ran out of the office to the river. I stood at the window and within a couple minutes the plane drifted back into view, just as a ferry arrived on the scene. While this was happening, photo editors in Washington started to edit Brendan’s pictures.

While looking at the plane I was shouting out info to the journalists who were writing the story: “It’s a big plane, looks like a US Airways plane I think, lots of people on the wings.””