BradleyG
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Dallas, TX
This is the control for the cabin pressurization outflow valve on the A-320 according to "google".
View attachment 27611 I couldn't locate a "ditching" checklist. Does not the "ditching" checklist have a line item "Close Outflow valve"? If so, why wasn't this valve closed? Perhaps the plane wouldn't have sunk? Or at least not as fast as it did.
I'm sorry if I offend anyone here but there was no heroism in landing that airplane in the several mile wide and unlimited length Hudson river. Any pilot here could have done the same thing. The glide decent rate would have been relatively low with the gear up. It was just a normal wings level touchdown.
Go ahead hit me, that landing was a piece of cake.
The issue was not the flying skill of the touchdown. It was the decision making and the management of the situation made in a very few moments, based on experience, training, and a lifetime of aviation knowledge!