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because 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
by bgnn 2y ago
because 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.