Gallery Puts Doctored Crash Photos on Display

Original Photo of Flight 1549 by Stephen MallonPhotoshopped Version of Flight 1549 Photo by Stephen Mallon

This weekend, Stephen Mallon opens an exhibition of his censored and Photoshopped images documenting the salvage of US Airways Flight 1549. “Brace for Impact” features photos the industrial photographer shot as the bird-struck plane was dredged from the icy Hudson River and carted through New Jersey earlier this year. But the photos nor the gallery’s press release, don’t say everything. The aircraft’s U.S. Airways logos have been digitally erased in a series of retractions and edits requested by the National Transportation Safety Board, the airline and its insurer AIG. The show opens from 7 to 10 PM on September 12th at 147 Roebling Street in Williamsburg.

Plane Takes A Dip In the Hudson


So a plane crashed in the Hudson River. According to the City Room, USAirways flight 1549, bound for Charolette, North Carolina may have ran into a flock of birds. A flotilla of boats is surrounding what’s left of the plane as the current continues to move it swiftly downtown along the Hudson. We took these photos from the 66th floor of the Empire State Building.
|Photos: Megan Forlines|

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