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Jeff Skiles, First Officer of US Airways Flight 1549, The Miracle on the Hudson, was the guest speaker for the AEA Annual Awards Luncheon on Friday, April 9th, during the Aircraft Electronics Association s 53rd annual International Convention & Trade Show, from April 7-10, in Orlando, FL he was also our guest for an intriguing interview shortly before that speech.
Skiles stepped into history on a bright, 20-degree afternoon in January 2009, as US Airways Flight 1549 rolled down New York La Guardia Airport s main runway with 155 passengers and crew, headed skyward for Charlotte, NC. Everything was normal until Skiles spotted a formation of Canada geese on the right side of the aircraft, seemingly headed directly toward them.
yesterday. everyone else, hotel areas, seeing friends and family, waiting it out, hoping they can leave. for most reports people staying wednesday, thursday, friday before they can get out of new york city. eric fisher will be there with them, possibly, based on how difficult it is to get out. reporter: i ll be bonding with all of them. now more detail on those flying on the east coast. some 2,000 flights canceled over the last 24, 48 hours and things are not expected to get back to normal until tomorrow or wednesday. just at laguardia, for instance. no flights until at least 4:00 this afternoon at jfk, laguardia, newark airports. you can go there but the planes aren t going anywhere. philadelphia, weather causing 2 1/2 hours delays. no planes leaving from logan airport in boston until after 2:00 p.m. eastern time. better news, if you re looking at taking a train. amtrak restored limited service between new york and boston. passengers should expect delays
there. trains should be running normally between new york and washington, d.c., soon. when will the northeast see some relief? let s go to our meteorologist, bill karins, he s watching that. i could tell you april but that wouldn t be very nice. i just got the new details in for the snowfall totals. these are probably official totals for the new york city area. central park, 20 inches of snow officially. so that really jumped up there. that thunder snow last night in the middle of the night upped those totals. new york city s highest one-day total ever from one storm, 27 inches, not far away. this could end up in the top ten. newark, new jersey, officially two feet of snow. the highest total around the new york city area, elizabeth, new jersey, with 31 inches of snow. so, yes, the blockbuster and bull s-eye around the new york city area but you still got hit hard around boston and philadelphia. we re just about done with the snow. a couple of snow bands left over new hampshire, mas
this was 20.0. top five. new york city s top five all-time snowstorms. yes, this was a big, historic storm, especially for new york. the rundown, newark, new jersey, 24 inches. the highest total elizabeth, new jersey, 31 inches of snow. just outside new york city, literally 20 miles, was the bull s-eye for the storm. i mentioned some left. portland, maine, leftover snow. blizzard warnings canceled for new york city area. still blizzard warnings around the boston and cape cod area. couple more bands of snow that will be about it. impressive, take a look at the last 36 hours of the storm and you can track the center of it right at the end. it had a little eye but disappeared off of cape cod. the storm s just about gone. how did d.c. escape the snow? incredible. virginia beach a foot of snow, atlanta gets snow but yet d.c. missed out. the storm was weak, as it went off the coast. that that area. off the north carolina coast. it really didn t strengthen