Originally Posted by
wowzz
what really, is the point of supplying life jackets for the pax?
Despite the Hudson event being one of only two controlled, intentional airline jet ditchings ever
afaik there have been scores if not hundreds of overruns/excursions into water. A urprising number of airfields have runways that project into water at one or both ends. Life jackets are thus far more useful than most people imagine.