View Full Version : Landing on water.....
GROUNDHOG
21st Apr 2005, 21:35
We all know the briefing "In the event of landing on water etc etc" but my question is how many times in recent history, say the last twenty years or so, has a civilian airliner actually landed on water?
Now I am discounting overshooting the runway or failing to rotate, I am talking about mid flight and where the majority if not all passengers and crew escaped?
Forgive me if this question has been asked before but its bugging me!!!!
Cyclone733
21st Apr 2005, 22:14
Well for starters:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9611/24/ethiopia.hijack/
ferrydude
21st Apr 2005, 22:19
Although it was more than 20 years ago, a JAL Diesel 8 landed in San Fransisco Bay, no fatalities and the aircraft is still in use today.
dusk2dawn
22nd Apr 2005, 07:00
And before that SAS flew another Diesel 8 into bay of LA.
PaperTiger
22nd Apr 2005, 15:23
Those DC-8s were undershoots (to say the least :oh: ); in terms of en-route jet ocean* ditchings I think there has only been one.
In May 1970 an ALM DC-9 ran out of fuel and had to ditch in the Caribbean, near enough to land for most on board to survive:
Link (http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Aviation/Disasters/70-05-02(Antillean).asp)
* Aeroflot Tu124 made an emergency landing in a river in 1963 - don't think that qualifies
FakePilot
22nd Apr 2005, 18:00
A fellow brought up a point on TV yesterday:
If airliners have life vests shouldn't ocean liners have parachutes? :D
Pub User
22nd Apr 2005, 21:45
That is most certainly a fellow that does not deserve to be on TV.
Piltdown Man
23rd Apr 2005, 15:21
Although not expressly a civil airliner, a Comet deriviative (aka Nimrod) ditched a few years ago and all got out.
cringe
24th Apr 2005, 00:16
Technically a water landing: in 2002 a Garuda 737 ditched into a river, with one fatality. More ditchings listed here:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/dblist.php?Event=REED&page=2
Maxrev
24th Apr 2005, 14:29
Been a fair few threads on this topic in recent years, try a search.
Ethiopian 767 ran out of fuel and the drunken hijackers were attacking the PF with a fire extinguisher at the time, not the best time to be attempting a ditch.
ALM DC-9 made textbook touchdown, but the skipper through an extraordinary brain fart didn't tell the CC so a few pax didn't get out and drowned.
In reality, a fully laden 747 or similar, North Atlantic in the middle of the night, attempting to ditch isn't something I like to dwell on too much....