Rainboe, I strongly reject your comment that my posts are missleading. Indeed yours are!
If this 737 would have been in a very high or even normal high rate of descent (ROD), there wouldn't have been any survivers. Stall at an altitude above a few meters is not survivable. Modern airliners are very efficient and Boeings are rigid and strong, but a fuselage with high ROD would desintegrate immediatly. G forces would be so strong to kill everyone on board. I assume that the ROD must have been less than 1000 ft/min, most probably less than 500. (normal sink rate at touchdown 100-300). The ground track was not short but indeed very long under these circumstances. Remember how fast the "Hudson Airbus" stopped on the water (seen by the CCTV)? Remember other accidents like the AUA F70 or the SAS MD80?
You may call it luck but I say that this was a near perfect landing on a soft field. (that doesn't imply that the crew didn't do mistakes before).
Dani