Via Suitably Flip. Pay attention to the left side of the frame starting at around 2:00; evidently this is as close as we’re going to get to a shot of the actual landing. There were no tourists with camcorders walking around the west side of Manhattan on Thursday afternoon? The Intrepid’s right there and was open for business at the time. No one on the deck thought to snap a shot of the jet descending right over their heads?
Captain Hero and his family are on their way to the inauguration, apparently. Exit quotation: “I know at our house, we watch the news and day after day, we’d say. ‘I just don’t know how much more bad news we can take.’ And so not only am I glad my husband is happy, healthy and alive today, but just for the nation, I just didn’t want to have another bad news accident for anybody’s family.”
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