hmmm....interesting...
I find it somewhat ironic that many of our standard airline op type posters are suspiciously quiet on this thread.
Many many threads dealing with the possibility of a dual engine failure were responded to in kind with responses like....'never happen' 'so rare as to not think about'....of course that crowd is of the feeling that holding V2 and some prescribed deck angle is thier only option...vs high speed aborts, ditchings, aborting into the weeds at the end of the runway....
Well this should give them something to think about...sometimes, oh my gosh....planes don't want to fly, no matter what your airspeed indicator says.
I will say this...the capt, he made a decision, and everyone walked away...and while not in my opinion, parking a plane in the middle of the river is the pinnacle of pilot skill, it's much better then those guys that would have continued on the departure, while going down...put it into some buildings, ect....with both engines out, he made the right decision.
Now how both engines came to flame out to begin with...is another story...