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[b]I guess the passengers of flight 1549 got a sad dose of reality upon landing in the Hudson last week!
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That's not a raft, it's the escape slide that can double as a raft. There are slides on the rear doors too but some dip-s**t passenger opened a rear door and that began the rapid flooding of the cabin. Second, there are preservers under every seat and if the passengers had listened to the boarding safety announcement they would have known to grab their preservers as they left their seats. Captain Sully actually went back inside and grabbed several preservers from under the seats and tossed as many as he could to passengers on the wings. Those passengers have nothing whatsoever to complain about
: they ignored (as they always do) the safety briefing and still lived through a water landing.