Tech Support wrote in message
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Here is my post. I only reported what media was saying and if TRUE was
a bad decission.

quote Witness also said gear was down (per media). If true (I said) ,
was bad decision. unquote

Later reports were more accurate and said gear up and streaming video
of bird before touch down let ME see that gear was up.

Does this satify you or can you not understand standard english
relating to flight?.


I think that I understand standard English as it relates to flight pretty
well, but I still find your original "bad decision" comment surprising.
Even if the gear had happened to be down for that ditching, I would not be
the one to stick my neck out and call it a "bad decision" until I had heard
the REASON for the gear being down. For several reasons, there may have not
been a decision to be made nor time to make it in.

The pilots' first job is the fly the plane, then communicate, and only then
deal with internal cockpit details. According to one AP report I read
(whatever THAT is worth) the pilots had at least three pages of checklists
for engine out and then ditching (probably more). According to that same
article, the pilots did not operate the "ditch switch" so we can guess that
the pilots simply did not have time to work their way to the end of their
checklists before impact.

Vaughn