For the record - Jan. 17, 2009

Plane’s emergency landing: In Friday’s Section A, an article about the US Airways jet that went down in New York’s Hudson River misquoted witness Patrick Wilder as saying he “saw the splash.” Wilder said he did not see the splash. The article also mischaracterized a 1982 Air Florida crash into a bridge over Washington’s Potomac River, calling it the United States’ “best-known attempt at a river landing.” The jetliner hit the bridge during takeoff.