I know about the landing on the Hudson (my apartment faces the Hudson and I saw it happen), but this paragraph still didn't make sense to me. What solution did the pilots push? Sullenberger, the pilot on that flight is both a glider pilot and a GA flight instructor, so he seems to be the perfect argument that GA skills lend themselves to better problem resolution in unexpected flight situations: he was essentially landing a glider when both engines went.

Making "the crash on the Hudson" a link would've helped a lot. I guess for that the article's main audience, aviators and aviation bureaucrats, this is well known?

I thought this was pretty well known https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549

I knew what crash he was referring to and even so, his statement made no sense to me because he didn't really explain what he was saying at all.

I didn't understand the point of the article, poorly-structured without informing the reader of recent legislation/decisions and how it affected them.