[MelodyL]

Get a load of this:

NEW YORK - A US Airways plane crashed into the frigid Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after striking a bird that disabled two engines, sending 150 on board scrambling onto rescue boats, authorities say. No deaths or serious injuries were immediately reported.

Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown says the US Airways Flight 1549 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport en route to Charlotte, N.C., when the crash occurred in the river near 48th Street in midtown Manhattan.

Brown says the plane, an Airbus 320, appears to have hit one or more birds.

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Let me ask all of you a question. Do you think some birds BROUGHT DOWN THIS PLANE?

I can see MAYBE, if it was a piper cub or one of those lightweight things.

BUT AN AIRBUS???

BIRDS????

I'd LOVE to hear your comments on this one.

Melody