Hudson crash pilot: 'I had faith in my skills and God'
Photo credit: Handout | Denise de Priester of East Windsor, N.J., was taking in the Manhattan skyline Sunday with a friend, Christopher Smidt, a correctional sergeant from Colonia, N.J., when the engine balked somewhere around the George Washington Bridge.
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As her single-engine plane lost power and began dropping toward the icy Hudson River off Yonkers, pilot Deniece de Priester said she never doubted that her flying skills would deliver her passenger and her from peril.
"I knew my flying skills," the 43-year-old New Jersey resident said in a telephone interview Thursday. "I was a glider pilot. I knew I'm very good at pinpoint landings. I had...
