Originally Posted by
helispotter
With a MTOW of 3379kg (wiki), the sea water you have to displace for it to float is only 3.3 cubic metres. That seems possible from all that is already submerged even if the cabin was partly flooded up when crew got out. With a pressurised cabin, if weather stays calm, it might even stay afloat. Did it?
I wonder what the ferry MTOW was, certainly not experienced here but don’t you get an overload MTOW?
It’s Sunday so to lazy to work out weights but 9 hours flight I read somewhere that’s around 1200kg of fuel required give or take.
Been 20 years since I flew the 421 so can’t remember, funnily enough I do have a brand new in plastic C421C POM! If I had it I’d probably look it up to answer my own question above 🤣.