tudorJust going for a swim
Remember kids, according to an FAA review of accidents, no type of water ditching has lower than an eighty percent survivability rating.
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.
