An old pilot saying goes something like: “Any landing you walk away from is a good landing.” So the U.S. Airways flight that crashed into the Hudson River in New York technically made a good landing.
Just the other day I read that the U.S. had experienced two straight years without a fatal airline crash. Then my heart started to sink when I saw the headline a few minutes ago when I logged on. Apparently a bird struck the Airbus A320 and all passengers have escaped relatively unscathed. Wikipedia reports that for the entire A320 family there have been 19 hull-loss accidents with a total of 631 fatalities as of 27 November 2008.
Wikipedia has a post on U.S. Airways Flight 1549 here.