NTSB final report on US Airways 1549

[Dornier 335]

For some easy reading at the fireplace:

http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/2010/AAR1003.pdf

 

[charlie2]

page 147:

There was only one minute, fifteen seconds from the time the captain told the air traffic controller that he couldn’t make Teterboro Airport and uttered those bone-chilling words, "We’re gonna be in the Hudson," until the actual touchdown.
I question whether having one minute, fifteen seconds is sufficient to consider a landing as "planned." I believe they reacted to their only viable option and landed where they could, instead of a "planned water event in which the flight crew… knowingly attempts to land in water."
Testimony from the public hearing indicated that there are unique attributes of a planned ditching that include the flight crew going through checklists, preparing the cabin crew, and having the passengers prepared. In the case of US Airways 1549, the crew didn’t have time to go through the ditching checklist, they didn’t have time to prepare the cabin, and the passengers were not prepared for the water landing.
For the above reasons, I believe US Airways 1549 was a forced landing on water as opposed to a ditching.

 

[nwaredtail]

interesting:

gotta love the airbus!