NEW YORK - Moments after US Airways flight 1549 crash landed into New York's frigid Hudson River, citizen journalist Janis Krums posted the first photo from the scene of the crash online to Twitter which he captured with his iPhone. Krums, from Sarasota, Florida snapped the photo from on board a passenger ferry en route to assist in passenger rescue efforts.
"There's a plane in the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy." Krums posted via Twitter's TwitPic service.
Thankfully all 155 passengers and crew aboard the failed US Airways flight are reported safe in what New York Governor David Patterson is calling a "Miracle on the Hudson", a spot-on sentiment I'm inclined to agree with.
"We had a miracle on 34th Street. I believe now we have had a miracle on the Hudson," Governor David Paterson said.
Janis Krums (left) was interviewed by MSNBC only thirty-four minutes after he posted his epic photo capture on Twitter. An iPhone capture that is now a thing of legend drawing in close to 269,000 views within one day. That's not including views outside of Krums' TwitPic site.
Why didn't he just use his phone to take a video and sell it for thousands to the news stations?!
Oh, wait... he couldn't shoot video because he has an iphone.
Sorry bro.
-don r
Posted by: Rob | January 17, 2009 at 05:45 PM