tudorJust going for a swim
SibboWhy is there an airplane in the water?
BroBot9000He’s actually Andrew Ryan’s son.
Would you kindly take this golf club.
Humor
Seaplane
I’m assuming the airplane is fucked and they had to ditch it in the water. He’s wearing an emergency floatation vest.
There were multiple videos covering this plane crash, here is one:
Cessna Engine Failure and Ditching in Ocean, Filmed From Inside (HD)
Cessna Engine Failure and Ditching in Ocean, Filmed From Inside (HD)
Remember kids, according to an FAA review of accidents, no type of water ditching has lower than an eighty percent survivability rating.
I wanna see a source plz
aviationsafetymagazine.com/…/the-myths-of-ditchin…
Sorry for the wait. I had family visiting and completely forgot about my comment. I believe I recall an FAA study with similar findings, but I can’t find it atm.
The Myths of Ditching - Aviation Safety
If you fly much over the water - even over wide bays and rivers - youve had to quell the uneasiness that arises when the engine goes into auto rough mode the instant youre beyond gliding range of shore. Not to worry; its not just you.The prospect of going into the water in an airplane terrifies most pilots, chiefly because few prepare for it and, in general, instructors dont know enough about the relevant risks to make well-informed judgments about overwater flying.As a result, certain myths and half-truths about ditching seem to persist, handed down from one pilot to the next who read something or knows someone who knew someone who vanished without a trace in Lake Michigan...
Not really sure what “water ditching” means but I assume that’s any time the airplane ends up in the water instead of on land?
If that’s a case, then there’s definitely the type of water ditching where the plane angles into the water at full speed, and I don’t think that’s gonna have 80%
FenrirIIII think ditching implies some control over the aircraft, versus straight crashing.
Maybe. Can anyone illuminate the 80% statistic? I’d like to know what it actually means.
Not maybe, yes. Thats what it means. “Water ditching” is a common colloquial name for an “emergency water landing” which is a type of emergency landing. A plane doing a nose dive straight into the water is not an emergency landing. That’s just a run of the mill crash.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_landing
The US forest service says it’s 90% but I’m not sure where they get that number from either.
then there’s definitely the type of water ditching where the plane angles into the water at full speed, and I don’t think that’s gonna have 80%
Pretty sure last time that happened it was still ~30%, which seems pretty impressive considering the video: youtu.be/w1u0D0E-Bq0 (SFW but it is a plane crashing)
I’m pretty sure by “type of ditching” OP means the water conditions. Ditching near the beach is often safer a roadway landing. The least safe is ditching in rough seas in the middle of the ocean, but even that has a surprisingly high survival rate. Pilots don’t always know this, and sometimes give up, not knowing that if they glide the airplane carefully down to the water, their chances of living are pretty good.
Captain AggravatedFlight instructor here: “ditching” is the technical term for landing a land plane on water. Here’s the procedure from the Pilots Operating Handbook of a Cessna 172S:
80% survivability…for the black box
I’m pretty sure survival chances are a lot lower than 80% when the water is freezing, and they’re far from rescue.
I think they’re saying you’ll survive the landing. What happens after is more variable
That makes a lot more sense.
Surprisingly, no. They counted deaths from exposure, drowning, etc as fatalities in this study: aviationsafetymagazine.com/…/the-myths-of-ditchin…
This is just a review of NTSB data and some ditchings may have gone unreported. The main point is that ditching, even in the open ocean is very survivable.
The Myths of Ditching - Aviation Safety
If you fly much over the water - even over wide bays and rivers - youve had to quell the uneasiness that arises when the engine goes into auto rough mode the instant youre beyond gliding range of shore. Not to worry; its not just you.The prospect of going into the water in an airplane terrifies most pilots, chiefly because few prepare for it and, in general, instructors dont know enough about the relevant risks to make well-informed judgments about overwater flying.As a result, certain myths and half-truths about ditching seem to persist, handed down from one pilot to the next who read something or knows someone who knew someone who vanished without a trace in Lake Michigan...
Looks like a great opportunity to talk about your car’s extended warranty!
It’s the empennage in the background that really makes it.
I think it’s the aircraft tail
A.K.A. empennage.
That’s gotta be the most pretentious way of saying “aircraft tail”
【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】Pretty common. Fusalage and empenage. Front and back.
Reason why it sounds pretentious:
Such majestic splendor.
That’s what I think the aircraft tail is.
That’s just his emotional support plane in the background, nothing to see here folks. Move along.
That does not look “fine”, but I applaud the optimism.