Well, the US Airways flight had just begun. It's also interesting to note that Sully was sightseeing on departure and another here says, "at least he was looking out the window". The Colgan crew is villified for not "looking inside" at the decaying airspeed.

Fact is, Sully's a hero, America needs it's hero's and once someone's proclaimed a hero, they can really do no wrong. Sully gets slack (I'm SURE he's broken sterile many times in his career) and others get the guillotine depending on the outcome.

BTW, great water landing.........they're saying it was so hard that a hole was punched in the fuselage, flooding the rear cabin and rendering a rear life reaft useless. Of course, they're investigating on how to blame something else and correct it for this.

Perhaps they'll blame a regional pilot ?