U.S. Air Ditching was NOT the First
John Moore | January 16, 2009
The media and blogs are reporting that yesterday’s US Air ditching of an airliner in the Hudson River was the first successful ditching of an airliner.
This simply is not true.
In 1968, a JAL DC-9 with over 100 passengers ditched in San Francisco Bay. In that case, there were zero injuries (unlike yesterday’s).
None of this is [...]