I have read the report and I know it says, at page 10: "“the airplane’s weight when it was ditched on the Hudson River was estimated to be about 150,000 pounds”. My amateur, non-commercial pilot research indicates that the maximum landing weight of a ‘vanilla’ A320-214 is 142,198 pounds. (Sarcasm alert!) By my maths 150,000 pounds is greater – quite a bit greater – than 142,198 pounds.
Could you give me the benefit of your commercial pilot expertise and express an opinion as to the accuracy of the following statement: “Captain Sullenberger and his crew suffered an emergency and ditched into a river (probably above MLW).”
(For the benefit of the OP: The bracketed words included in my post were an evidently failed attempt at irony.)
(In case you haven’t watched it, Lookleft, I’d commend the Young Sheldon series to you. There’s an episode in which psychologists submit Sheldon and his twin sister to a bunch of tests. The tests reveal the genius Sheldon’s weak spots – characterised by his maternal grandmother as Sheldon’s ‘kryptonite’. He’s entirely oblivious to sarcasm and irony.
Your weak spots include whatever it is that makes you obsessed with reminding everyone that I’m not a commercial pilot and proving how much you know, to the extent that you’re blinded to the points I’m making.)