plane in water

Recently in this article of breaking news, a plane leaving from queen new york engines failed and made an emergency landing in the hudson river. Witnesses saw the plane land in the water and they said " If someone were to land in the river , this would be the best way. It landed very gradial". Everyone on the plane was okay, the pilot management to keep all the passangers and crew safe. When the pilot Sully Sullenberger landed, all the passangers filed out onto either the wings or inflatable wings. The passangers say they saw the plane fly into a flock of birds and the birds could of very well been the cause of the failed engine.