John

How many jet hours do you have?

How much training in ditching do you have?

Have you gone to any Navy school where ditching technique is taught?

Msc., msc., msc.

Did you read my post? I said the gear down was reported by a so called
witness and repeated in the media. I then said if that was a correct
report it was a bad decission.

Since bird did not tuck and dive on touch down I seriously doubt the
gear was down.

If pilot was unable to retract gear after losing both engines then he
had no choice.

Bottom line is that he did a good job with what he had available.

Big John

6 pm news tonight showed bird before ditching and gear was up.

I really didn't expect an old F-4 jock to ditch with the gear down if
he had an option.

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On Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:47:12 +0100, John Smith
wrote:

Tech Support wrote:

Witness also said gear was down. If true, was bad decision.

How many airliners have you successfully ditched? So who are you to
second-guess this astonishingly perfect outcome?

Big John

Way too big.