Sully made it because the aircraft helped him to do so. Whatever the protections build-in the plane, there is nowhere in the design criterion to flight test the plane in ditching. Barely recommendations.
There was no casualties that day, not ONLY because of Sully, but because some actions were not accomplished and some decision were made. You are talking about 1° or 2 seconds of aft stick... When I see the videos about XWind landing in a FBW airplane, I am just thinking about the amount of luck ( a big bucket) these drivers are carrying.
I still think that if he had flown a conventional aircraft they would have ended in multiple parts in the Hudson.
But this is history, he made it, within some minutes. He is an history ( deserved or not)
Last edited by CL300; 21st May 2017 at 09:43.