In any case the Hudson river incident highlights the point. Sully did what he thought was best, the outcome was optimal with no loss of life or even serious injury. He was then put through the ringer in court to prove what he did was justified, even to the point they tried to hang him by saying a split second decision could have been made to fly over built up areas and try to make a runway. Luckily reality was on his side and it was proven very unlikely that aiming for a runway would have been a good choice. Then there is Tuninter 1153, the wrong fuel sensor was installed in the aircraft, it ran out of fuel mid Mediterranean, the crew became confused about why both engines flamed out, even though fuel was indicated, were preoccupied with inflight restarts and missed an opportunity to just glide to two airports just in range at the time of failure. The ditching itself was considered textbook but being an ATR it still broke up and pasengers died. The PIC was charged with manslaughter and sentenced to 10 years prison, even the FO was charged and given jail time.