CONF iture:
Was it merely understandable confusion under such a tremendous amount of pressure that a relight attempt was performed on both engines … By continuously exploiting maximum of the still available thrust, would it have minimized enough the rate of descent for Captain Sullenberger to reconsider his ultimate decision making ?
Looking at the "corncobbed" HP compressors, I am frankly amazed the engines ran at all. The first-stage blades are amputated at the mid-span shrouds, and virtually every airfoil has some damage.
Sully & Skiles were lucky to have what little they had by way of electrical and hydraulics.