Two bits of excitement in one day! It is not every day you get to see a full solar eclipse, and safely ditch your aircraft, and it looks good they came out of it unscathed.
A wag would say they could have done a bit less family bonding, or used another method to save on landing fees, but....
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-...hton/102249554
"Ms Yeats said she was speaking to her son as the plane came down, telling him, "mate, we've just had engine failure, we're going to have to land on the beach".
"He was like 'for real, are you for real?'. I said, 'hopefully this is the most exciting thing that's going to happen in your life and we're going to be okay.'"
"But the best part is, people were rescued and
they all came out safe and that's the main thing."