Did the current help?
In response to Wiley, who has just commented on the current in the Hudson as an aid to the safe ditching, I did mention this back in post #380.
No one seemed to notice my comment back then, except for one poster who said that the current was too slow to have any effect.
The videos that have been released today show that there was a terrific current in favour of a safe ditching. The force was with the pilot that day.
It must have been a downwind ditching as the plane took off in the opposite direction to the direction of ditching.
Last edited by McGinty; 18th January 2009 at 04:47.