Originally Posted by
torqueshow
Which bit? The report does not mention the blade contacting the water at any point, not does it mention any further damage to the aircraft.
The second part of the sentence, there’s plenty of footage online of blades hitting water and it not ending well at all. Considering they were banked over, a blade tip entering the water would be a catastrophic event.
The only mention of the blade contacting the water is from a passenger witness statement and there’s no other corroborating evidence to support that. Witness statements historically are pretty inaccurate as people tend to have poor detail memory from a stressful event.
I would imagine there would be plenty of spray and it would be very hard to see whether a blade touched the surface or not. Witness statements of what they saw during stressful incidents are notoriously unreliable.