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Getting into the water, chunky with ice, is "nothing I wish on anybody, " Smidt said.
NPR: NJ Man In Hudson Plane Crash Called Wife, Then 911
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Once the plane was in the water, Smidt said, he called his wife, Karen.
NPR: NJ Man In Hudson Plane Crash Called Wife, Then 911
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When Smidt was pulled into the boat, "His hands were shaking, " recalled 12-year-old Dan Higgins Jr.
WSJ: NJ man in Hudson plane crash called wife, then 911
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Smidt was a passenger Sunday evening as his flight instructor, Denise De Priester, of East Windsor, N.
WSJ: NJ man in Hudson plane crash called wife, then 911
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"Without her skills, this story would be going another way, " Smidt said.
NPR: NJ Man In Hudson Plane Crash Called Wife, Then 911
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Smidt then called 911, and a dispatcher told pilot and passenger to get out of the plane in life vests before it sank.
NPR: NJ Man In Hudson Plane Crash Called Wife, Then 911
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He called 911 and they followed the police dispatcher's order to get out of the sinking single-engine plane, then "everything went blank, " Smidt said.
WSJ: NJ man in Hudson plane crash called wife, then 911
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Smidt said he is a student pilot and De Priester is his flight instructor, but on Sunday they were just out for a sightseeing flight in her newly purchased 1967 Piper Cherokee.
NPR: NJ Man In Hudson Plane Crash Called Wife, Then 911
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Christopher Smidt, a correctional sergeant from Colonia, N.
NPR: NJ Man In Hudson Plane Crash Called Wife, Then 911
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Chris Smidt, a correctional sergeant from Colonia, N.
WSJ: NJ man in Hudson plane crash called wife, then 911