His consummate skill, the years of experience he possesses and his pilot’s instincts, are one thing, but the fact that dead-stick landings such as Sullenberger completed safely yesterday afternoon, defy the odds against survival. The statistics against surviving in an aircraft after a bird strike strongly go against you walking away to face another day. If you enter the water with the nose of the aircraft in an attitude-down position, the plane can disintegrate when it hits the water. The pilot brought the plane in nose-up, and thus made himself a place in history/
David Laird
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