[fish hawk]

I'm not taking anything away from the pilot. Just stating that he made the most logical choice. And you are right about one thing, I am the Cat's meow. Put yourself in his position and see if your choice would be to set down in the “neighborhood”. The man did good for sure and deserves to be honored but Sainthood is a little much.

[torchthemummy]

And you are right about one thing, I am the Cat's meow.

The very fact that you are comfortable calling yourself the cats meow is a glaring example of why you are not the cat's meow.

[Polybius]

I'm not taking anything away from the pilot. Just stating that he made the most logical choice.

No, the most logical choice would have been to land on a runway as the tower was advising him to do.

Altutude and speed are the life of an aircraft and the professional judgment involved was Sullenberger's quick evaluation of the fact that he was, in his own words, "Too low and too slow" and his rejection of the tower's advice.

Only after that professional judgment was made does it become "obvious" to land in the river instead of landing on a neighborhood.