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Page last updated at 14:26 GMT, Friday, 16 January 2009

'There was a loud explosion'

Passengers who were on board the US Airways Airbus A320, which made a crash-landing minutes out of New York's LaGuardia airport, have told of their extraordinary escape.

All passengers and crew were rescued from the wings or helped from the icy Hudson River by divers.

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