Originally Posted by
Derfred
In my airline it would be SOP for the cabin crew to call BRACE in the event of an unexpected ditching.
And so they should... it could save lives in the event of a subsequent impact (such as with a rock wall).
Yes, it would be reasonable to expect that, if an aircraft hits something that clearly isn't the runway, the instinctive reaction of the crew will be to call "brace!".
Unfortunately that doesn't really help to resolve the conflicting reports from passengers who reported, variously, that the sequence of events was "impact->brace call->impact" or simply "impact->brace call".