Bid to recover river plane wreckage

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In what has been dubbed "The Miracle on the Hudson", all 155 passengers and crew survived after the pilot successfully attempted an emergency water landing on Thursday evening.

Captain Chesley Sullenberger - who has since been hailed as a hero for his actions - is also due to be interviewed, as experts attempt to discover why his plane failed.

Kitty Higgins, board member of the US National Transportation Safety Board, said that strong currents and adverse weather conditions had so far hampered progress to salvage the aircraft.

Once out of the water, the plane's black box recorders will be removed and taken away for examination. Meanwhile, police sonar equipment will be used to search for the plane's engine which came apart from the craft's body, Ms Higgins said.

Early indications, based on eyewitness accounts, suggest that the plane could have been downed as a result of a bird strike.

Passengers on the US Airways aircraft said the plane got into difficulties shortly after take-off from LaGuardia Airport.

After landing the Airbus A320 plane perfectly on the river, commercial and rescue vessels raced to the scene to take on the passengers - some of whom were lined up along the aircraft's wing.

New York governor David Paterson described the emergency landing and the plane's successful evacuation as the "miracle on the Hudson".

As an official transport safety team investigated the crash, there was worldwide praise for Mr Sullenberger, who aviation experts said had "done everything right".