Interesting name choice Brace for landing.
As according to some he omitted the last warning to the cabin before hitting the water.
The crew may not have correctly configured the outside doors for a water landing so it sunk quicker than it should have.
My awesome pilot hero story would be this crew.
These guys had a long fight and got it to the airport where the rescue equipment was located.
United Airlines Flight 232 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On July 19, 1989, the Douglas DC-10 (Registration N1819U) suffered an uncontained failure of its number 2 engine which destroyed all three of the aircraft's hydraulic systems. With no controls working except the thrust levers for the two remaining engines, the aircraft broke up during an emergency landing on the runway at Sioux City, Iowa, killing 112 of its 286 passengers and one of the 11 crew members.
Owing to the skill of the crew and a DC-10 instructor pilot, who was a passenger on the aircraft, 174 passengers and 10 crew members, survived the crash. The disaster is considered an example of successful Crew Resource Management, due to the effective use of all the resources available aboard the plane for help during the emergency.[1]