It’s amazing. A plane carrying over 154 people crashed into the Hudson River and everyone survived. The pilot did a masterful job, without a doubt, and everyone who leaped to action, including the ferry companies, deserve a lot of credit.

However, one thing struck me. Rob, a fellow staff member from Neowin and my co-host for the NeowinCAST, sent me a link to TwitPic. TwitPic, is a site that lets Twitter users host pictures taken from their cell phones and such on their servers and then link to them on Twitter. In this case, a passenger on one of the ferries that was redirected to help the passengers of the sinking plane took a picture from his phone and uploaded it. Oddly enough, it’s one of the best images we have from the accident, either amateur or professional. Social networking sometimes does really outshine the professionals.

http://twitpic.com/135xa#