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I don't believe that ditching an aircraft in water is all that successful, most end in failure. Most Flight Training Centers, procedures for training how to ditch an aircraft in the water are much like landing a plane with the landing gear up. Flight Simulators lack the actual software data to do an accurate portrayal of how to perform a realistic water ditching procedure. Who in their right mind is going to try to successfully ditch a real aircraft in the water to collect this data? NO ONE..... The fact that few aircraft are ditched in the water with success lends truth to the fact that most flight crews are poorly trained to perform the procedure in the first place.

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