If you take a look at Pan-Am’s history with sea planes (the Clippers), you’ll find a lot of fatal crashes with some very experienced pilots at the controls. I’m mentioning Pan-Am because they were pioneers in the use of sea planes for international travel, back when there were no airports in remote locations.
Clippers always looked rugged to me
But I don’t really know their history
My family, Sundays after church would visit Pan American sea-base at Dinner Key. Those were the good times before Pearl Harbor! Then passengers dressed nicely! b1935
The terminal had a large globe in the mezzanine, which I still is in storage in Miami.