Upstate SC Woman Survives NYC Plane Crash

From her hospital bed in New York City, Shae Childers of Gaffney, South Carolina says she will not be taking a flight home when she is released from the hospital.

Childers is one of the 146 passengers who survived the NYC plane crash into the Hudson River on Thursday.

The plane, schedule to fly from LaGuardia to Charlotte, North Carolina, was a U.S. Air jet piloted by a man that passengers are describing as a hero.

About a minute into takeoff the jet hit some geese which shut down both engines. The pilot guided the plane into a U-turn over the Hudson River and then safely landed it in the water.

Childers says she immediately made her way out of the aircraft into the Hudson River, where rescue boats were already waiting.

As a buyer for Hamrick's Clothing of Gaffney, Childers was in New York City on company business and was returning home to Gaffney when the plane went down. She stated that the entire episode is a frightening but amazing story of survival and the coordinated efforts of the pilot and rescue personnel to insure that there was no loss of life.

Everyone on the plane survived.