protectthehornet
1. no one was injured (the f/a had a severe leg gash)
2. the plane could be hauled out of the water, dried off and flown again.
oh...yeah...that happened to a DC8 just shy of the runway at San Francisco, CA. plane landed in the water (non fly by wire mind you)...later pulled out and FLEW VERY WELL FOR ANOTHER 20 years.
1. Unfortunate any other outcome would have been worse.
2. They probably could have done that to the A320 if it had landed in San Francisco Bay! The DC8 landing where Sully had to ditch it in a fast flowing river would have suffered the same fate!
Your terminology caused a little confusion re "flare reserve", which I presume BEARDY has deciphered, well the flare reserve would be there in a FBW Airbus it would be down to the pilot skills that Sully displayed.
Did you fly the DC9 by any chance?