Homeland Security and FBI officials say there’s no indication that a plane crash in New York City was terrorism.
FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said the bureau is aware of the crash in the Hudson River but says investigators have no information suggesting it was, as he called it, a security-related incident.
Homeland Security spokeswoman Laura Keehner said the same thing. Early indications from government officials was that the plane was disabled after striking birds.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Laura Brown says the US Airways Flight 1549 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport en route to Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday when the crash occurred in the river near 48th Street in midtown Manhattan.
New York City firefighters are responding to the crash. It was not immediately clear if there were injuries, and CNN is reporting there are none of the 148 passengers remain trapped on the plane as it is sinking quickly.
Witness Barbara Sambriski, a researcher at The Associated Press, said, “I just thought, ‘Why is it so low?’ And, splash, it hit the water.”
CNN contributed to this report.
– Associated Press.
