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Old 28th January 2004 | 20:47
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christep
 
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As I understand it there has never been a single survivable ditching by a commercial jet aircraft with underwing engines, although there have been a few attempts. Looked at rationally there is really no case for carrying lifejackets on such planes.

Even with tailmount engines there have been precious few (is it one or two?) ditchings of large commercial aircraft which anyone at all survived.
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