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[steveporsche]

The picture you posted was the plane after it was towed back to a Hudson river dock. It is probably touching river bed there and thus only partially submerged. Where it ditched, the river depth was about 60 feet. When the pilot decided to ditch - he hit a "ditch" switch which helps seal up the bottom of the plane in water. His landing was so smooth that he did not cause any cracks to the fuselage. He cleared the George Washington bridge by about 900 feet. If you look closely at the footage - you can see that the Ferries/NYPD/NYFD had the plane secured with straps to keep it from sinking shortly after the crash. So a beautiful landing and quick response kept the plane afloat after the first few minutes. There was plently of water in the plane during most of the rescue and it would have gone down quickly without quick action.