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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
May be the first water landing of a commercial jet liner. No one can remember another.
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I was told at one point by a credible source that I could ignore the instructions "in the unlikely event of a water landing" because there had never been a survivable water landing in the jet age because the stall speed of a jet is too high to remain intact. Yet there's this, the one in DC in the early '80s, and the one at the beach in Aruba or whereever where the drunk hijackers ran the plane out of fuel -- they're always showing that guy's vacation video of the crash on those World's Wildest etc. TV shows. People died in both of those, but a small number survived.
So it appears the advice is either that there's never been a
fully-survivable water landing of a passenger jet until today, or that there's never been one on the open ocean. YMMV, indeed.
