Not sure what of this you can't understand... the two incidents are entirely different... one was a relatively simple matter of putting a bird down in the Hudson (the safest and ONLY place to land) after a matter of a few minutes transpired from the loss of engines, which any number of thousands of well-trained commercial pilots could have/would have done vs. one that was a nearly superhuman feat of complicated aviation with a severly disabled aircraft that transpired over a significant portion of time that likely few aviators could have pulled off.
But I'll leave you to your media-induced fantasy... it's so much more interesting than reality...
My old man, a 33 year airline veteran, thinks the job Al Haynes did was probably the greatest feat of airman-ship quite possibly in the history of aviation.
He also happens to live in NYC right where the US Airways touched down and essentially credits the pilots with good, basic airman-ship. Nothing more, nothing less. Landing in the Hudson was the only option.
