The survivors of that airplane that miraculously survived an emergency landing in the frigid Hudson River should really stop talking to the tabloids. Though they surely don't intend to come off as a bunch of ungrateful whiners, the Post is doing a pretty good job painting some of them with that brush.
In a story about the various personal belongings passengers lost in the drink, one survivor, 39-year-old Joshua Peltz, is quoted venting about the precious footage of his 2-year-old daughter Adalind he had stored on a cellphone that got left behind on the plane: "I'm very upset, disappointed and frustrated. It was important to me. It was important to my entire family."
The airline is offering $5,000 to each passenger for their material losses, but that won't bring back the 40 adorable videos Peltz made of his princess but never backed up. And what about his luggage, which held "a special seashell" he always travels with? "It was the first seashell Adalind ever picked up," Peltz tells the Post, "from our first trip together as a family of three, in Miami Beach, when she could walk down the shore." Other lost items include a decade-old stack of love letters, a child's artwork, and thousands of dollars' worth of golf equipment. We hope you're happy, Captain Sully!
Speaking of the celebrated captain, there's a nice NY Mag feature on Sully this week, which includes a fly-on-the-wall account of the crash, and an examination of how commercial pilots' careers have changed since Sully started four decades ago. Conclusion? Had flight 1549 been piloted by one of these younger by-the-book captains, the passengers probably wouldn't have anything to complain about now, because they'd all be dead. (Related: Flight 1549 passengers say airline's being stingy.)
