Crash Passengers Arrive Home

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 16, 2009 12:53 PM CST
Crash Passengers Arrive Home
A survivor of U.S. Airways flight 1549 talks to reporters after returning to Charlotte, N.C., early Friday January 16, 2009. Flight 1549 plunged into the Hudson river in N.Y. on Thursday.   (AP Photo/Brad Coville)

They experienced a bit of turbulence along the way, but the passengers of US Airways flight 1549 have begun reaching their final destination. About 10 passengers arrived in Charlotte shortly after midnight, the Charlotte Observer reports, reporting a “raucous atmosphere” of celebration aboard the flight. Weren’t they afraid to fly so soon after their crash? “We fortified ourselves,” joked one passenger, referring to the drinks on the plane.

More passengers arrived on a 9am flight, and still more will be coming in throughout the day. But one of the men on the midnight flight said he couldn’t wait to get home and see his daughter. “When I get home, I want to take my nose and put it by her ear and feel her warm body and give her a nice kiss from daddy—because I’m alive.” (More Charlotte stories.)

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