Originally Posted by misd-agin
The computers might have saved everyone's bacon by not allowing an excursion into an AOA regime that might have triggered an AOA that was too high, at too high an altitude, with resulting increased rate of descent at water impact.
There was no such danger. Passing 150ft at 1200ft/min the airplane didn't reach yet alpha prot - Autotrim was still in action.
Had the elevators collaborated to Sully request anything better, and certainly not worse, was achievable.
You put a catastrophic scenarios where there is none.