The web was a seething mass of interactivity last night as bloggers, Twitterers and the mainstream media scrambled over themselves to get the latest on the US Airways crash.
Within minutes of the Airbus hitting the Hudson River a photograph of passengers standing on the fuselage and wings was put on Twitpic - a move which crashed the fledgling service.
The image was subsequently re-hosted on a variety sites, including here.
Most remarkable of all - apart from the fact that all passengers and crew surived the crash - was that shortly after someone had grabbed the data freely available from flightaware.com and created an interactive map of the aircraft from the moment it took off from La Guardia Airport in New York to the moment of impact.
The map only works in Firefox at the moment and cannot be embedded. Check it out.
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