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I only captured the tail-end

It was being transported by a truck when I saw it passing by on Bergen Avenue this afternoon (around 3PM). Unfortunately, I was in the car and couldn’t get out.

According to NJ.com, the jet was supposed to be brought to Newark, but it didn’t fit in the bridge so it had to be taken via alternate routes.

Did you see the plane?

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PHOTOS: US Airways jet that crash landed in the Hudson River is driven through the streets of Hudson County
by The Jersey Journal
Saturday January 31, 2009, 8:49 PM

Freelance photographer Richard J. McCormack was among the Hudson County residents taken aback this afternoon when they spotted the front portion of US Airways Flight 1549 being driven on a flatbed tow truck through the streets of Jersey City and North Bergen.

McCormack reports that the fuselage, which had been brought to Weeks Marine Inc. in Jersey City for the federal investigation after it crash landed in the Hudson River, was supposed to head to Newark via the Officers Shawn Carson and Robert Nguyen Memorial Bridge, but the plane couldn’t fit and hit the top of the bridge.

Officials then had to back it down and take it back up Communipaw Avenue and onto Kennedy Boulevard to Montgomery Street, passing the St. Peter’s College campus before turning right onto Montgomery, then left onto Bergen Avenue. These photos were taken on Montgomery Street and Bergen Avenue.

The plane was then headed to Journal Square, McCormack said, and up the Boulevard to 86th Street in North Bergen.

News Source: Jersey Journal