The latest video on BBC shows in a wide shot, what looks like the complete length of the wake, from the point the tail skimmed the water taken just as the aircraft comes to a halt. Any comments on the length of the "water roll"?
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BBC NEWS | Americas | New footage of Hudson plane
Seeing the forward slide deploy and then settle at a reasonable angle for a passenger to slide down, I wondered how many passengers chose not to exit onto the slide because they did not consider it a life raft?
Maybe some who had a choice, initially went to the wing exit as they thought the slide would send them into the water?
This could explain why the rafts were under utilised?
Only after a few people sit in it does it flatten out and look like a raft?
Mickjoebill