buoyancy a major factor in survivability
I am very curious as to how much would an engine on this type of Airbus weigh and what difference in weight there would be between an aircraft with engines attached and an aircraft minus its engines ?
Also do people know if Airbus or Boeing ever floated aircraft during testing & development to try & guage aproxmimate floating times with or without engines ?
And was the reason that aircraft engines where designed & fitted so that they shear off during an impact due to the fact that an aircraft would sink much faster with them attached ?
I just can't help thinking that if those engines stayed attached that the aircraft would have sunk imediatly ?
So i guess buoyancy was definatly a factor in the survivability of this incident .