> More recent planes are usually ever better (the OG 747 is from 1969!) At the very least it allows the pilot to 'land' on sea and wait for evacuation in zodiac

> More recent planes are usually ever better (the OG 747 is from 1969!) At the very least it allows the pilot to 'land' on sea and wait for evacuation in zodiacs. So even in the extremely unprobable event that ETOPS failed (the statistical outlier where a plane loses both engines), you'd probably just glide to the ground 100-200km away at most to reach some landing spot. While I agree with the rest, landing on sea is a terrible idea. That can work on rivers where you have no waves. But gliding onto an ocean with waves will likely be fatal. Luckily, there is no recent case of a double engine failure where landing on sea was necessary (apart from maybe MH370 but we don't know that).