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by Mel Martin Jan 16th 2009 at 2:30PM

The crash and near miraculous rescue of the passengers and crew of U.S. Airways Flight 1549 in New York City has been big news for the last day. Like many news events, it has been extensively covered by news agencies, and, as we are seeing more frequently now, by the public using camera phones.

With the popularity of the iPhone, a breaking news story is never far from our favorite cellular device.

Janis Krums, a Florida businessman, was on a Hudson River ferry boat when the pilot plunged the airliner into the frigid waters yesterday afternoon. His picture of the sinking aircraft, with passengers knee deep in water on the right wing helped tell the story in a single image, and his dramatic shot was splashed on front pages across the country. Krums used Twitpic to publish his photo, and that service was soon shut down by high traffic. He was interviewed on MSNBC and kept his friends up to date on his Twitter feed.

Flickr is also displaying lots of photos from the scene, many of them taken by iPhones. Not much happens today out of the sight of a camera or a camera phone. Janis Krums scooped just about everybody using only his quick wits and his favorite mobile phone.

[via PDN Pulse, news services, MSNBC]]

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January 31 2009 at 7:22 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Michael Rose

Holiday weekend, things got a mite slow.

January 19 2009 at 1:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TouchPodium.com

Seriously?

Seriously?..... I mean, come on. Who really gives a rats ass what device the photo was snapped with. 100+ people were a hair away between life and death.

This news is huge, everywhere... but I mean, bringing this news to TUAW, and relating it to the iPhone? I find that kind of a long-shot, and for some reason, a little selfish in some way...

January 19 2009 at 1:54 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Michael Rose

It's probably the most famous picture taken with an iPhone, so it seemed reasonable to cover it.

January 19 2009 at 1:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ChrismUSAF

Yeah, really! Two days? C'mon...

January 18 2009 at 9:24 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
W Park

To everyone go complains about the camera on iPhone, I have to say that it is perfectly tuned for the display. I use a lot of photography on my blog and I usually tweak the photos on my iPhone.

http://golfism.wordpress.com/category/golf-photography/

January 17 2009 at 4:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
L3

I, for one, would like to be the first to wonder about the mixture of a water landing and an iPhone. Who has a water logged iPhone after this event? Was anyone prepared enough to have a Otterboxed iPhone?

I got the Otterbox for outdoor use in Search and Rescue situations, not to mention just going to feed the horses. I can't imagine the terror of having an unprotected iPhone and landing in the water (tongue in cheek.)

January 17 2009 at 11:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Ryan

Ooh ... if I had been on that plane and was not scared out of my wits I could have assuredly won the monthly (and yearly) Planet Otterbox competition!

Amazing rescue, amazing flying, great work and cool heads from everyone.

January 17 2009 at 4:58 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nico Arvy

Thankfully it wasn't slightly darker or there'd be no pic. The iPhone is rubbish at dark or even near dark. Can we say LED flash please?

January 17 2009 at 4:38 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Jash Sayani

Yeah, the iPhone is great in light but you can't use it in the dark. Hope to see an small LED next to the camera in the next iPhone.

I know it would not look very beautiful, Apple. But pls, its needed.

January 17 2009 at 8:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ryan

An LED flash would not help in the least had the plan been in the dark. It would even make it worse. Now, if someone actually ON the wing had the phone with the flash ... THEN we could get a washed out picture of the back of someone's head ... and maybe even a picture of Janis taking his picture to confirm if it was or was not an iPhone.

January 17 2009 at 4:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Rich

"Oooh, golly, I wonder what sort of mobile telephonic communications device they used to photograugh the crash?"

"Well! It can't be like ours, because the resolution's all wrong! It hasn't got enough dots!"

"Well, you can change the number of dots!"

People! Someone just saved 155 people's lives! Anybody awake in there?

January 17 2009 at 1:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rjflyn@yahoo.com

I know I was watching the whole thing going down live on Fox News
Sheppard Smith commented a couple times he was surprised that with everyone and their brother having a cell phone or digital camera that there were no actual pictures/video of the plane going down.

January 17 2009 at 12:57 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Cheggy Eggplant

"...he was surprised that with everyone and their brother having a cell phone or digital camera that there were no actual pictures/video of the plane going down."

Maybe people were worried that they'd be arrested for being a terrorist. After all, that what terrorists do apparently; take photos in full view of the public. ;-)

January 17 2009 at 4:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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