NY1's Meminger Gets Video Of Jet Going Down
Brief Footage Also Aired On CNN
Kent Gibbons -- Multichannel News, 1/16/2009 9:41:12 AM
Video of the US Airways jetliner in air, after its engine exploded but before crash landing in the Hudson River was captured by Dean Meminger, a reporter at Time Warner Cable's NY1 local-news channel in New York.
A NY1 story about Memingers's footage can be seen here.
Though many people were interviewed Thursday who said they watched the Airbus 320 gliding and ditching in the river, little if any video of the event was shown on news channels that night other than the few seconds of video Meminger shot. It was shown on CNN's Campbell Brown-hosted program at 10 p.m. as well as on NY1. CNN is owned by Time Warner Inc., former parent of TWC.
The brief footage sowed the plane as it was "headed north," prior to turning west and then south over the river, Meminger said on the air.
All of the 150 passengers and five crew members were reportedly rescued, including by ferries and water taxis in the area and by emergency services personnel.
Meminger said on NY1 that he was at the Bronx Zoo working on a story when he heard a "big bang" and saw the plane and realized "it was in danger."
"At that point, I went to my trunk. I had a little camera. I jumped out, had enough time to shoot just a few seconds -- we have slowed it down a bit here so people can see it."
"Within a minute of this point, it was already down in the Hudson River," he said.
Meminger also interviewed another witness, identified as Michael Petty, who said he saw flames from the plane and that he thought "it was going down."
Said the news channel's Bronx reporter: "Luckily, everyone made it out OK and, you know, for a reporter. not a bad day's work. At the right place at the right time. And I can smile about it, happy about it, because everybody is out safely."
Meminger has been at NY1 since 1997, got his first big break in TV journalism at the public-access channel
BronxNet and is the son of former New York Knicks guard Dean "The Dream" Meminger.
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