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"In the unlikely event of a water landing..."
One might also call this "Airline Fact of the Day":
My friend Peter Thompson did some research on this. At least going back to 1970, which by my estimation encompasses over 150 million commercial airline flights, there has not been a single water landing! (Some planes explode and fall into the water, but he couldn’t find anything resembling a water landing where any of those instructions might help you.) So perhaps 15 billion customer trips have heard that 10-15 second set of instructions without it ever being useful to anyone.
That is from Steve Levitt. Here is the official site of Unlikely. Here are unlikely stories.
Addendum: Do read the comments, the "fact" appears to be wrong...
Posted by Tyler Cowen on June 12, 2006 at 04:14 AM in Data Source | Permalink
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There was this crash a few years ago:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9611/24/ethiopia.hijack/index.html
Posted by: stefan at Jun 12, 2006 7:02:53 AM
So it is pointless for airline seat bottoms to double as flotation devices.
Posted by: Paul N at Jun 12, 2006 7:21:41 AM
There have been a few rare water landings (the Ethiopia Airlines flight mentioned in a previous comment comes to mind), and also several cases of aircraft failing to take off and rolling into a body of water. Wikipedia has a list.
More detailed reports on a few:
Tuninter 1153 (2005, ditched in the ocean)
USAir 5050 (1989, rolled off the end of the runway at LaGuardia)
Ethiopian Airlines 961 (1996, hijacking/forced ditch in ocean)
Posted by: erica at Jun 12, 2006 7:47:52 AM
I flew into Kai Tak (Hong Kong) OVER the wreckage of this plane:
http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/ci605/5.shtml
China Airlines 605, went off the runway, into the harbor, then a tug boat pushed the plane to shore. They needed their life vests. (The tail wasn't damaged in the crash; the tail was obstructing the only runway so the Gurkha's blew it off.)
Posted by: Adam at Jun 12, 2006 9:47:14 AM
And closer to your home, Air Florida Flight 90 pulled four survivors from the icy Potomac, although admittedly it hit the 14th Street bridge first. http://www.airdisaster.com/special/special-af90.shtml
Posted by: Jonathan at Jun 12, 2006 11:33:48 AM
When I was a boy there was a landing in rather shallow water in San Francisco Bay, where the passengers were (as I recall) all safely evacuated from the floating airliner. This would probably have been in the late '60s or early '70s.
Posted by: David at Jun 12, 2006 1:29:33 PM
Some of the flight attendants on the flights I've been on lately have been rather sarcastic during the safety presentations... "Just in case there is someone on this flight who has NEVER RIDDEN IN A CAR in the past 20 years, the FAA requires that we give you the following demonstration of how to fasten your seatbelt..."
Posted by: Jacqueline at Jun 12, 2006 1:55:04 PM
Heh. They even give that announcement for the 20-minute hop between Tucson and Phoenix, where the only water to be hit might be an olympic-sized pool.
Posted by: B at Jun 12, 2006 3:41:45 PM
Alaska Airlines crashed in to the Pacific Ocean in 2000 because of defective tail controls.
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