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Ditching Demystified: What Every Pilot Should Know About Landing on Water

Flying Magazine

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. I finally spoke up and asked if we had a plan.

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