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Old 3rd September 2011 | 20:34
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The program suggests that during the final flare, before touchdown in the water, that the A320 actually controls the pitch attitude of the aircraft - not the pilot. That not matter what input the pilot gives to the side stick, the aircraft will deliver a perfect touchdown attitude (approx 7 degrees.)
Absofreakingly not true.

The Hudson ditching was made in normal law, speed got so low that alpha protection was activated. It's not active during normal landing, not because it's deactivated but because excessive AoA is not approached.

Before this thread gets clogged by the contributions of "FBW is dangerous!" brigade, I would suggest that we use NTSB report as the beginning point of our discussion.
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