Comment Re:Power? We dont need no stink'n power! (Score 1) 468
[...] until those guys did it a few years ago in the Hudson, no commercial plane had ever done it and remained intact.
Your friends in the aviation industry were mistaken. If you come in flat and level on a decent glide slope and decent weather, the vast majority of the passengers are likely to survive. Some of the ditches in the linked article went terribly, with the plane breaking into multiple pieces on impact, and still had the majority of the passengers surviving. Floatation devices on airplanes are not a joke, despite what some would have you believe.