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Online gaming enthusiasts have been provided with the opportunity to become the “Hero of the Hudson”, although some have called the video game as offensive. US Airways pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s heroic water landing into the Hudson River was able to save all of the passengers and crew and was heralded as “the miracle on the Hudson”.

Now a team of developers has created an online video game that allows users to attempt their own version of the landing. The game is situated on the approach to the Hudso Rivern, beside Manhattan’s West Side in New York, where the plane landed in icy cold waters. Players have to keep the plane leveled at the correct altitude and bring it to a stable landing on the water. Failing could indicate placing the lives of virtual passengers at risk, as the jet crashes and sinks into the river with an ominous bubbling sound.