Two pilots told investigators they were going over schedules using their laptop computers against company policy while their passenger jet overflew their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles.

THE investigation of the emergency crash landing of a US Airways jetliner will last a year and the lessons will go on for decades.

The flight data recorder of the US Airways jet that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River shows the aircraft lost power simultaneously in both engines, Federal investigators said tonight.

Salvage crews have hoisted a US Airways jetliner from the Hudson River and onto a barge days after its pilot made a split-second decision to attempt a water landing to avoid a “catastrophic” crash over populated areas.

Plane crash investigators will today attempt to recover the wreckage of a passenger jet that plummeted into New York’s Hudson River, miraculously leaving no-one seriously hurt.