There will always be passengers who pay attention to the briefings and know where the life vests are. There will always be passengers who ignore everything and try assemble their carry on bags and drag them out of the plane while everything and everyone around them burns.
On UA flights, when enabled, Channel 9 can be monitored gate-to-gate. It's not always enabled. Capt. Haynes turned off channel 9 sometime after they blew their engine but before they realized how bad things were.
Okay, for the journalists reading the thread, and unsure how to call the authors of these posts, here's a cheat sheet:
Frequent Fliers praise the heroism of the crew.
Flight Crew claim it's "professionalism"
First Officers remind people that there was more than one person on the flight deck.
Captains state that the authority has to rest with one person (they also silently suspect it'll all turn out to be the "co-pilot's" fault)
Flight Attendants point to the speedy and orderly evacuation of far too many people in far too little time.
Europeans wonder why US senior flight attendants would be on a domestic route.
US Senior Flight Attendants would correct them, but today's youth just wouldn't understand anyway. Heck, sometimes not even the whippersnappers on the domestic routes understand.
Journalist Trolls suggest that flight attendants, ferry drivers, a full flight crew was unnecessary, in the hope of drawing out a choice quote.
Boeing Fanatics marvel at why Airbus would build such a tough plane only to prevent pilots from actually flying it.
Airbus Pilots argue over whether the aircraft was in Normal, Alternate or Direct Law.
Airbus Test Pilots claim to have the answer.
Marketing wants to move USAirways' into the Marine Air Terminal at LGA.
Sky Gods are quiet. Lockheed's looking into developing a seaplane just to clear up all this fuss about water landings.
Right-place, right-time, left-seat pilots with a consulting company on the side specializing in teaching CRM to the corporate world emphasize the teamwork and coordination that functioned flawlessly from Ops until the NTSB debrief.
Attorneys are too busy scrambling for "needlessly terrified" clients.
my apologies to all involved.