New York City - Divers in the US city of New York continued to search on Saturday for the engines of the US Airways plane that crashed into the frigid waters of the Hudson River on Thursday.

Investigators were interested in recovering the engines to determine the specifics involved in the emergency landing in which, miraculously, all 155 passengers and crew escaped unharmed.

The plane, which crashed near midtown Manhattan, drifted to the island's southern tip, where it is now anchored. However, the engines broke off during the crash and could be anywhere in a six-kilometre range along the river.

The analysis of the engines is supposed to show whether one or more birds flew into and blocked the engines' propellers. (dpa)