PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Grumman Avenger down in Cocoa Beach, Florida
Old 21st Apr 2021, 13:49
  #35 (permalink)  
GeeRam
 
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Royal Berkshire
Posts: 1,738
Received 77 Likes on 39 Posts
Originally Posted by meleagertoo
Looks like an extraordianrlily hazardous place for a forced landing with all those swimmers who would be invisible until the last moment. As it was he seems to have only narrowly missed a couple, and there was a whole crowd of them just ahead of where they stopped. Fifty yards further out and there would have been no hazard to 3rd parties...but a sunken airframe. I wonder if that was a factor in landing so very close to the beach.
Possibly.
Plus pilot also not appearing to be wearing any life vest/preserver for an over water display, so again not wanting to be risking ditching in deeper water?
GeeRam is offline