...by the way I want to say thanks a lot to eagle21 for the thread.
Incident and accident analysis are always very interesting and useful.
Concerning the US Airways accident, in my opinion the crew has to be elected as example for many reasons, like:
1) CRM: the captain and the FO shared the workload in a perfect way: while the captain flew the plane and talked to the ATC, the FO went trough the emergency checklists, also trying to restart the engines.
2) Despite the emergency was very scary, the captain seemed very calm and sure about what he (and the plane) could and could not to do.
3) in this situation, to launch the mayday call would have been redundant, to declare the intention to land an A320 on the Hudson river sounds already like a mayday.
4) the ditching was carried out in the best way possible, no structural failures were reported (other than the engines). I don't think that US Airways trains his pilots to ditch the A320's, so that is called SKILL.