A forced landing on a beach doesn't sound too hard - undershoot or overshoot and, well, you land on a different part of the beach!
Ok, seriously, well done to the pilot - I hope I never have to contend with "smoke billowing from the cockpit," and I know there's no such thing as "easy" under that kind of pressure.
Actually found a very small article on this in The Sun yesterday - the editor seemed to think that playing with the idea of a
Beech landing on a
beach was more important than any details about what actually happened.
FFF
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