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The second engine has been located and recovered.

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THE left engine of a US Airways jet that crash-landed in the Hudson River was pulled from the water more than a week after the accident, according to the US Army Corps of Engineers.

"The engine has been lifted, put on a barge and is going to the place in New Jersey where the rest of the plane is," said Mary Stavana, a spokeswoman for the Army command.

The engine, which was ripped from the fuselage during the emergency landing, was found this week by a team of divers in the riverbed at a site close to where the plane hit the river.

Investigators have reported finding "soft body" impacts in the jet's other engine.

The evidence, also including a feather stuck on a wing, appeared to support the belief that the Airbus hit a dense flock of birds before losing power in both engines and crash-landing in New York's Hudson River on January 15.

The rest of the plane was pulled out over the weekend, allowing recovery of the black box flight recorders, which strengthened evidence of a bird-plane collision.

The emergency landing of the Airbus A-320 was completed without loss of life, turning the pilot, Chesley Sullenberger, into a national hero for having saved all 155 people onboard.

CBS Television said it would air the first public interview with Sullenberger on February 8 in its 60 Minutes program.