Geez Jeff
You must be a physchic or something to know all the things that happened.
I wonder what Sully Sullenberger would have done had he had you whispering in his ear about all things that might have gone wrong when attempting a landing on the Hudson River.
I don't know the empty weight of the Electra, or whether the gear extinsion system could raise the plane as it operated to lower the gear, but most of the fuel (6600 lbs) had been burned.
The props would have been feathered, the engines wouldn't have been turning, the temperature was in the 100's so things would dry out fairly fast.
A low, slow gentle glide slope with the engines off and props feathered tail low and nose high so that contact with the water was as gentle as possible would be the way to go.
Do I believe that this is what happened? No, but it is a possibility.