With the stock market crash of 2008 still looming behind us and the unemployment rate to 7.2% according to CNN money. In 2009 America needed something to give us hope. A plane crash was the last place we would expect to find it, but on January 15, 2009 a miracle appeared. When an Airbus a320 landed in the hudson river and all 155 passengers survived. Hope gathered around New York city and it’s new name the Miracle on the Hudson. Miracle on The Hudson includes inserts from survivors and their experiences in the cabin on that fateful day. Everybody contributed from a stay at home mom to a businessman. The editors William Prochnau and Laura Parker make this one cohesive book. William Prochnau is an experienced journalist whose other books include
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On page twenty-nine it first says “From his first class seat 1c, Barry Leonard, a successful businessman who can talk as descriptively as a novelist, was taken more by the engine sound after the bang- “tennis shoes rolling around in a dryer. . . bump-bump, bump-bump”- as the birds scrambled the metal innards of the engine, and the engine, in turn, liquefied the birds. This helps you imagine the frightful experience right after the birdstrike. Then again on page thirty-seven with “Immediately after the bird strike the cabin filled with a slight haze of smoke and a smell that gave almost everyone the shivers. Ricardo Valeriano described it as “a distinct smell of jet fuel, burning hair, and burning flesh. It’s a concoction you never want to smell in your life, especially when you’re on an airplane.” This transports you to the cabin and the smell of the burning geese. Descriptive language is used after the plane landed and when people were in the river in the extreme cold weather. Shown on page one hundred and thirty. “When Barry Leonard jumped out of the first-class exit door and dropped into the Hudson, the cold water hit him like a jolt of electricity.” This line sends chills down your
On page twenty-nine it first says “From his first class seat 1c, Barry Leonard, a successful businessman who can talk as descriptively as a novelist, was taken more by the engine sound after the bang- “tennis shoes rolling around in a dryer. . . bump-bump, bump-bump”- as the birds scrambled the metal innards of the engine, and the engine, in turn, liquefied the birds. This helps you imagine the frightful experience right after the birdstrike. Then again on page thirty-seven with “Immediately after the bird strike the cabin filled with a slight haze of smoke and a smell that gave almost everyone the shivers. Ricardo Valeriano described it as “a distinct smell of jet fuel, burning hair, and burning flesh. It’s a concoction you never want to smell in your life, especially when you’re on an airplane.” This transports you to the cabin and the smell of the burning geese. Descriptive language is used after the plane landed and when people were in the river in the extreme cold weather. Shown on page one hundred and thirty. “When Barry Leonard jumped out of the first-class exit door and dropped into the Hudson, the cold water hit him like a jolt of electricity.” This line sends chills down your