Originally Posted by
Sam Rutherford
If you're at about 5000' and crossing the shortest distance, odds are you're never out of gliding range of land anyway (you don't mention if you're flying a glider or a brick).
That's what I thought a couple of days ago when my (aviation literate) yachtie friends started tweeting from their boat about an "all ships" call from Dover coastguard to look out for ditching survivors following a 7700 in mid channel. But nothing has been heard of this incident since, which suggests that the aircraft reached land in one piece with its engine going.