"There's a plane on the Hudson. I'm on the ferry going to pick up people. Crazy."

And so went one of the Tweets from the ever-expanding Twitter-ers who, for many people, broke the news about the jaw-dropping emergency plane landing by a US Airways pilot yesterday after the plane's engines failed.

(By the way, Janis Krums, the Florida man who posted the picture of the plane floating on the Hudson river while all the passengers were getting out, has been on Good Morning America so far this morning, and on MSNBC. "The last few hours have been intense. Thanks for all the support.")

How did you find out about the plane that landed on New York's Hudson River yesterday afternoon? I got an email-, then a text, then phone calls and then was able to watch the live story unfold on CNN.

But talk about a crowd-sourcing story. The site Social Media Today has another round up of how they got the news. Via texts to their mobile device, for the most part via Twitter feeds.

Not being close to a TV at the time, I clicked on CNN.com to see what they had. Pictures but not video yet.

Then over to the NYTimes.com Web site, which had posted an alert headline atop its home page. Later a blog post started to relay what the reporter had seen on CNN, and eyewitness accounts -- by then flying in via text and other mobile devices.

The NYT Web site may have been slow to cover the story compared to other news organizations, but it would later publish a fascinating package of coverage -- its own reporting, eyewitness accounts from passengers, from witnesses who sent in accounts, videos and pictures of what they say unfold on the Hudson yesterday.

Amazing. One of my favorite headlines on the Times' coverage: E-Mail Note: 'I Landed in the Hudson'