Yours truly was minding her own business this afternoon, driving back home from Ft. Worth at 75 miles an hour, when all of a sudden I start getting messages about a US Airways plane that had ditched in the Hudson on my phone.

Now, being the card-carrying airline geek that I am — you can only imagine that it was a miracle I got home and did not run into anyone while I drove and tried to 1) get my emails 2) get online and/or 3) find out what had happened.

According to reports, US Airways’ Flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia to Charlotte at 3:03 PM Eastern time. Reports say that the pilot reported a “double bird strike” and apparently the crew felt it necessary to put the aircraft down in the Hudson.

Listening to NPR just now, the reporter there interviewed one of the passengers who said the plane essentially “glided in” on the water. As you can see in this photo, the aircraft remained floating, and passengers were rescued from the wings and the top of the aircraft.

What is unbelievable is that all reports say that all passengers and crew were rescued.

We can only hope that this is the case.

If so — well done and kudos to the flight crew.

I’m sure we’ll all know more as the evening goes on.

PHOTO/NBC NEWS