Originally Posted by
Taped2Seat
Understood - wondering if whoever was in command of the plane may have ditched at a pre-determined rendezvous point, then sunk the plane. But that would require extraordinary skills, to land in open ocean w/o breaking apart/cartwheeling.
Almost impossible to pull off reliably in the open ocean, in all normal conditions the sea state would be too high. Sully lucked out with a calm, smooth conditions on an inland waterway.
But why would you even want to land it in the water?