Apu theory further explained
Gentlemen, sorry for not being clear enough for all to understand. This aircraft had a history of single engine flame out on climb. It stands to reason that the crew reviewed the maintenance logs as part of their preflight procedures. I've worked Line Maintenance for 27 years. Part of my job was expanding those sometimes cryptic maintenance write ups and going through the mental exercise of playing out each one in various phases of flight to decide what critical systems are in use as well as and attitude of of the aircraft at that time.
My experience with Geese are they fly in a V formation ergo flaming out two engines by ingestion, though not impossible, is very very slim. Add to that the appearance of one engine obviously damaged by ingestion yet the other not showing the same damage in spite of high speed water landing. I won't even bring up the fact that it's kind of late in the migration window for a large concentration of "Canadian Geese" to be hanging out in NYC. (Shopping maybe?)
Once again, not taking anything from the performance of the flight crew, if the APU was left running and if the remaining engine simply flamed out, the F/O would be able to attempt a re-light of that engine. My point was simply, Were they setup for this Miracle Landing purely by a company directed Fuel Saving Program. Much can happen in aircraft attitude changes especially in first and second segment climb operations.
Just throwing it out there to satisfy my own curiosity. Nothing more.-- Cosmo.....................