At 16:57 16 January 2009, Andy wrote:
On Jan 16, 9:48=A0am, "kirk.stant" wrote:

I noted that he did not have a seaplane rating and that one probably
would have been useful. He landed downstream though, perhaps he had
no other option with the altitude available. I don't know the Hudson
but it must have a fair current as the Airbus is reported to have gone
4 miles downstream before it was secured.

The Hudson is an estuary, and the current past Manhattan runs both ways.
To know which way the river was running, he would have had to know the
state of the tide. Maybe he should have had some training as captain of a
racing sailboat.

Jim Beckman