It is a free country, and you were not in the cockpit - so yes, your comments speak from an ignorance of the facts of the situation.

Of course you are allowed to make your opinion,but we have the right to disagree with that opinion and you have to expect that. You are not speaking with all the facts.

This was NOT making a landing with crosswinds - which is a difficult manuever but it is not the same scenario.   The emergency procedures started at 3000 feet, not 35,000 and while I would suspect he had numerous landings with crosswinds, this was probably his first time ditching a plane in the Hudson River in one of the most populated regions of the country.

No one is making him an exception - except perhaps yourself - but they are making him a hero. The man is a hero, regardless of your opinion.