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Old 26th June 2009 | 07:01
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muduckace
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Water Ditching

Did not dig through the thousands of posts reguararding the sucessfull Hudson River landing.

I had allways immagined a water landing to be High AOA (tail impact first at a slow as possible IAS, being speed as the enemy)

Question is observing servailance video showing a low AOA impact that obviously created a stable landing (have seen video of a wing tip digging in and cart-wheeling an aircraft in other failed water ditchings). The engines (one lost) seemed to stabilize the the impact at low AOA that was more or less a three point landing... Tail and wing engines.

Question... Is this SOP at your operator as it was very sucessfull?
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