So far, so good! The plane held together when the pilot ditched in the water (damn fine piloting!). It's slowly sinking, but it's surrounded by boats, and people are getting out okay.

Wolf Blitzer (CNN) is currently talking via cell-phone (I think) to one of the passengers who got off. The passenger said that some people were able to step right out the door into a boat. Some passengers standing on the wing and getting into boats.

I think they just said that everyone got off okay.

They had just taken off from LaGuardia, and the theory is that they sucked a bird into one of the engines.

Don Firth