Disarming doors before ditching

[chadwick]

Question - how many successful ditchings have cause all passenger to actually be able to exit the aircraft in the manner describe. Be realistic folks, the flight deck have to have a flat calm mill pond to land without loosing engines and clipping wings to get the a/c hull to land in one piece and deploy the shoots!

Experts say ifit hadnt been caused to list, it looked like it would have been a succesful ditching.

One has ones doubts about that, read the official report.

The reason for the suggestion it would be successful was shallow water but realistically
you are not going to be over those conditions in a normal situation.

Your training is there to make you feel comfortable in the situation and not alot more!