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US airways crash

by Jolyon on 15 January, 2009

One Janis Krums (a man) went to rescue people from the Hudson, and sent this picture via Twitter, believed to be the first of the crash.
Citizen journalism — and perhaps useful to crash investigators and insurers.

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For all you aviation underwriters out there

by Jolyon on 21 December, 2008

Continental Airlines flight 1404 was taking off from Denver, headed to Houston, when it veered off the runway and crashed. 38 people were injured, none seriously.
One of the passengers posted only-just-after-event messages (tweets) on Twitter about his experiences – a fine example of Web 2.0 almost operating on the Other Side.
“Holy f***ing sh*t I [...]

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