Originally Posted by
Airhoss
My question is how did they wind up killing themselves while ditching a twin otter? Something went bad wrong on that water landing.
There's a lot that can go wrong with fixed gear, ditching in the pacific, under duress. I don't know what the conditions were during this event, but a lot of time there's a marine layer just offshore from California. Pretty hard to estimate swells, sea-state, etc. when you can't see the surface. Lots of stuff in this scenario that could go really poorly.