Dear Lord... not again?

You could not blame the citizens of New York or New Jersey for thinking the worst when, mere days before one administration transfers power to another, they saw a jet liner over the skies of New York city but in a location and trajectory where it absolutely should not be.

Graphic at right (H/T: Information Dissemination) shows the flight path of the Airbus A320 from take off at LaGuardia to splashdown in the Hudson 6 minutes later. (Last ping should read 3:31 vs. 3:21)
And video below provides a computer-generated look at what the pilot and co-pilot were seeing upon descent.