the outlanding on water is far more common...

Good point. Getting back to the Wurtsboro Salto accident, the pilot might
indeed have tried landing in a lake if the option occurred to him (there was
probably a lake within reach). In the late 1980's an HP-14 landed safely and
without damage in one of them.

If you have to land in the water, put the landing gear down to keep the nose
from plowing too deeply and too steeply under the water.


Mike Yankee

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