Wearing our smoke goggles makes it difficult to be understood on the interphone and to have a good instrument scan etc-distracting also.
Very good job UPS pilots!
Those FEDEX pilots who dived into Stewart years ago barely made it out of their DC-10 as the smoke thickened.
Someone made an excellent observation about overwater flights-ditching in the pitch-black night (low vis? landing lights not available if emergency power required...inflatable raft location?) onto large waves as hard as concrete? Water temperatures?
This can easily happen on a passenger plane. They also carry cargo. Read up on the Valuejet disaster.