[rattlsnak]

>>Given that I am not a pilot, but having watched the Blancolerio video and a number of videos on emergency procedures, I think I would have avoided the highway and gone gear up into the undeveloped land just to the west of the highway corridor.<<

Except it was dark so that field was not seen. In the daylight, probably much different outcome but in initial pilot training, we are taught to find a road first as its usually the safest place. Fields have lots of hazards. Usually not an interstate, but a country road. but that area is densely populated so it's best to land with the flow of traffic as opposed to landing on a road with a bunch of stopped cars at a red light.