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Is there a reason why a runway landing was preferred over a water landing?
by blindriver 2y ago
Is there a reason why a runway landing was preferred over a water landing?
- bgnn 2y agobecause water is a hard surface at landing speeds and the plane often breaks apart at contact. if you manage to land in one piece, you have limited time before plane starts submerging.
- blindriver 2y agoGiven the fact that the runway landing resulted in 99% dead I feel like the water landing was by far the better option.
- bgnn 2y agothey didn't try to land it seems. trying to land was the better option.
- kelnos 2y agoHindsight is always 20/20. Without knowing how things will turn out, it seems reasonable that it would be safer to land on the runway without landing gear, even if water is available. Certainly in some cases it might turn out that a water landing would have been the better option, but you might not know that until it's too late.
- ipnon 2y agoWe don’t know if the pilots were aware of emergency yet. It’s plausible they erroneously thought landing gear was down and attempted a fatal go-around once the airframe hit the runway. The SOP for broken landing gear is to land on the runway anyway because you have immediate access to emergency services.
- x3n0ph3n3 2y agoRunway landing is always preferred over a water landing.
- blindriver 2y agoEven though almost everyone died? I would disagree pretty strongly that runway was preferred than water landing.
- x3n0ph3n3 2y agoLanding in the ocean is not the same as landing on the hudson river. Not only would the plane have still likely broken up and caught on fire, but rescue crews would have been even further away. Something went horribly wrong on that plane and in that cockpit. Emergency services didn't even have a chance to prep the runway.