Originally Posted by
grounded27
May be a horrible truth what you are saying but why does this crew not deserve the same respect as sully in the Hudson for performing a perfect PERFECT gear up landing resulting in NIL casualties?
Seems to me they are to be handled very well!
Because the USAir crew had no engines over the middle of a huge city all of a sudden at low altitude. An immediate decision was made that led to a successful ditching.
This crew had all kinds of time to deal with their problem. Time will tell if it was handled properly. There appears to be potential for it looking like an aircraft writeoff due to a popped CB, but that is only speculation at this point(with solid reasoning for that speculation).
However it turns out, this thread is a good reminder to never assume that a second failure happened because of an earlier failure.