Ditching Demystified: What Every Pilot Should Know About Landing on Water
Flying Magazine
JUNE 23, 2025
Staying within two miles of shore might have prevented the ditching, but this is one of those cases where the pilot really stacked the deck against a favorable outcome: no medical, no BFR, and the airplane’s last annual inspection had been nine years earlier. Jim Wolper is an airline transport pilot and retired mathematics professor.
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