I can’t decide if this online game is tasteless or not, but that’s not for me to decide – only report that there is a free video game online where you can attempt to land a plane in the Hudson River.
Click here to play the game.
*Use the left and right arrow buttons to stabilize the plane.
Just so you know… I landed it successfully 
From the Associated Press:
An online video game inspired by the heroics of Flight 1549’s crew offers players the chance to try landing a plane in the Hudson River.
The instructions for the game tell you to use the left and right arrow keys on your keyboard to keep the plane level with the water as it plunges from an altitude of 1,500 feet. It begins with the warning, “The fate of passengers is in your hands!”
If you get it wrong, the jet crashes and sinks into the river with an ominous gurgling sound.
The pilot of the US Airways flight was forced to ditch the plane in the river after a collision with a flock of birds knocked out both engines. All 155 aboard survived the Jan. 15 splash-landing.
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Colleen
Remember the Boeing 737 flight simulator we got to tfly a while back? Well if I remember correctly, you nailed it 1st try with absolutely no real instruction before hand. Me I was all over the place trying to fly the clide slope. I guess all those hours of Nintindo and Mario Brothers was time well spent after all.
I agree that it was a good landing and represents a pilot successfully doing his job by applying the skills he’s learned. It was probably somewhere between a 1 in 4 & 1 in 5 outcome given the landing conditions. The same landing over the open ocean would be much more difficult due to the swells generally present. Thank goodness it didn’t occur directly over the city where he wouldn’t really have any good options.
This accident reinforced how nice it is that an airplane can glide. You should try auto-rotating a 42K lb helicopter to a full stop without too many injuries. Helicopters don’t glide….