To: fwdude
A little misleading. Most of these are botched LANDINGS OR TAKEOFFS, where the plane is still relatively close to the ground. A failure from cruising altitude or with several hundred feet of altitude is almost impossible to survive, even over water. Altitude is your friend and allows more time to recover from mishaps. Landings and takeoffs still involve altitudes and speeds that are potentially lethal.
35 posted on
09/26/2013 12:23:27 PM PDT by
Moonman62
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To: Moonman62
Point is that landings and takeoffs usually entail vectors of travel that are oblique to the ground, not a perpendicular impact against which there is little or no opportunity to recover.
63 posted on
09/26/2013 12:37:09 PM PDT by
fwdude
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