Watery landings

With the ditching in the Hudson dominating the news, I decided to look up an incident that I remembered from my boyhood, where a JAL airliner ended up landing in San Francisco Bay. A good account of the surprisingly smooth landing can be found here.

Driving down to Manhattan this Saturday, it was striking to see how much ice there was in the Hudson. Yet one more bit of luck that there was a patch of open water to land in.