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Witnesses describe Hudson River crash from the ground

Buzz Nahas was walking along the Hoboken, N.J., waterfront Saturday about noon when he heard the impact of a deadly midair crash over the Hudson River. "There was a loud pop, almost like a car backfire," he said.

Nahas said he looked up to see a plane without one of its wings "fluttering" into the water. A helicopter, he said, dropped from the sky "like a rock."

Other witnesses to the...

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