Move from warehouse to museum being tracked on Twitter
When last we saw U.S. Airways flight 1549 in January 2009 it was being dragged out of the Hudson River, shortly after its famous splash landing that allowed 155 passengers and crew to escape unscathed and pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger to be hailed as a hero.
Today we can follow the plane’s progress on Twitter as it makes its way over land on a truck traveling from a New Jersey warehouse to its final destination of the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, N.C.
From a Reuters report:
The museum was tracking the journey, originally announced to begin on Monday, through the streets of New Jersey and beyond, on Twitter at @CarolinAirMusem.
“Today (Saturday) we will stop in New Brunswick,” a midday posting said.
Museum president Shawn Dorsch, who called the plane “a major international aviation icon,” said it would take several months to reassemble the aircraft.
Most recently, Twitter users can see the plane being greeted by “people on bridge on I-70 near mile 17.” That was after “heading west, expect to reach the Fairmont scales in west va on I-68 by 4pm.”
The pictures in this case are nothing special – except maybe for the fact that you don’t see a commercial jet rumbling down the highway every day — but monitoring breaking news in real time has long been high on my list of Twitter’s most useful attributes. The water landing of Flight 1549 was among the earliest and most high-profile examples, perhaps best remembered for the photo taken by Twitter user and ferryboat passenger Janis Krums.
Here was the tweet that Krums sent: “There’s a plane in the Hudson. I’m on the ferry going to pick up the people. Crazy.”
That plane is now on a highway. And still on Twitter. Crazy.
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