2. I think a better landing in the river/on the river would have been possible with an older non FBW airplane...the plane sully flew didn't have a big ''flare reserve'' to cushion the landing.
Don't quite see how a successful ditching with an airliner can be improved giving the fact that all souls on board walked away from it but maybe that is because nobody told me about flare reserve in my life.
Where is the bugspray?