On 2006-12-20, Roger wrote:
Maybe so and maybe not. You are playing the odds. I lost a good
friend just a couple weeks ago when he apparently dug a float in while
landing.

People have been lost when they've botched landings on dry land too. Are
we "playing the odds" when landing on dry land? Well, some people would
say so about any flying!

The point is (and made by this article) - ditching isn't nearly the
"certain death" that it's painted to be, and indeed in most cases it's
survivable with little enough injury that egress is possible (around 90%
of inshore water ditchings). One person dying when botching a water
landing does not change this.

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