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Originally Posted by ljg  The ASF, and during a recent CFI renewal, but here's another link from the AOPA: http://www.aopa.org/pilot/features/inflight9907.html Bottom line
This may all sound absolutely dreadful, but statistics show that most ditchings are successful. By one count, 88 percent of all ditchings were survived. Other statistics show a 92-percent successful egress rate. A recent search of NTSB data from 1983 to 1999 shows that there were 143 ditchings on record, and that only 20 of them involved fatalities. Most of those fatalities happened in open-ocean, cold-water environments. |
I would like to know how many of those ditchings were fixed gear versus retract. I'm not saying it's a done deal if you are ditching in a fixed, I've met a guy who ditched in the Gulf of Mexico in a Caravan, but I'm sure there are some more serious injuries.