ACARS wrote: "PPRUNE has just over 7000 people logged on. Looks like highest ever."
I don't know... I know that after BA 038 landed short at LHR, there were many times that one could not even log on to PPRUNE.
There were many blessings with this incident... first, that it occurred during daylight hours. (Do geese even fly at night?) Second, the weather (wind, visibility etc.) was relatively benign. And third, if one HAD to ditch an airliner into 40 degree F water, there probably is not a better place in the world than New York Harbor... the site was crawling with boats, both civilian as well as FDNY, NYPD and USCG within minutes.