On 2006-12-20, Greg Farris wrote:
Actually, in a small plane, you would -usually- rather hit the ground.
Water landings tend to be unhappy events in light aircraft, especially
fixed gear singles. Some are unhappier than others though - man!

They are unhappy events as in you don't get to use the plane afterwards
- but water landings are surprisingly survivable. Fixed gear or
retractible gear doesn't seem to make a lot of difference in ditchings.

http://www.equipped.com/ditchingmyths.htm

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