[Renfrew]

Water landings are hard. Is this the first time ever there has been an ocean landing where all aboard survived?

[cyclotic]

During WWII, Eddie Rickenbacker, the WWI flying ace was a passenger in a B-17 headed to a Pacific Island from Hawaii. The Navigator made a mistake and they missed the island and ditched at sea. All except one of the crew survived in a raft for three weeks.

https://www.historynet.com/eddie-rickenbacker-and-six-other-people-survive-a-b-17-crash-and-three-weeks-lost-in-the-pacific-ocean.htm#:~:text=Eddie%20Rickenbacker%20and%20Six%20Other%20People%20Survive%20a,Pearl%20Harbor%20attack%20and%20involved%20an%20American%20icon.