Originally Posted by
snowfalcon2
The Coast Guard video offers a truly unique document of an aircraft evacuation "in earnest"........
.......But I'm struck by the fact that so many passengers went out on the wings, when both overwing slides/rafts were clearly deployed. Standing on the wings the risk of falling into the water is probably much higher than in the raft. Had there been larger waves, or darkness, the risk would have been even higher........
LiveLeak.com - Hudson Crash from Coast Guard Camera
At 3:12 in the video a passenger with no life jacket slips off the right wing, disappears below the water, and is then helped back up by another passenger. (also not wearing a life jacket)
It truly was a miracle that they didn't lose some one.