Originally Posted by
ToiletDuck
88% of ditchings in commercial airliners have had zero fatalities. That number is the lowest given probability and when given a controlled ditching effort the number is even higher.
Interesting stats.. source?
Here is one source that only lists four ditchings.
Jet Airliner Ditching Events
another...
Emergency landing
it says...
The following figures show survival rates for passengers and crew:
*Tuninter Air, Flt. 1153, August 6, 2005, of the coast of Sicily, 39 occupants, 23 survivors, 59% survival rate
*Aeroflot Tupolev 124 ditching in Neva river, October, 1963, 52 occupants, 52 survivors, narrowly missed a tugboat which sped to plane, cast a line and towed it to shallow waters, where the occupants were deboarded onto tug. 100% survival rate
*ALM DC9, May 2, 1970, the Caribbean, 63 occupants, 40 survivors, 63% survival rate
*Ethiopian Air Lines 767, November 23, 1996, off the Comoros Islands, 175 occupants, 45 survivors, 26% survival rate
*Miami Air Lease Convair CV-340, December 4, 2004, Mall lake, Florida, 2 occupants, 2 survivors, 100% survival rate
*Northwest Orient Airlines Flt. 2, Boeing Stratocruiser, April 2, 1956, ditched in the 430 feet Puget Sound, 38 passengers, all survived the ditching but 5 could not recover the freezing waters, 87% survival rate.
*Pan Am Flt. 943 Boeing Stratocruiser "Sovereign of the Skies", October 16, 1956, in the Pacific between Honolulu and San Francisco, 30 passengers and crew, 30 survivors, 100% survival rate
Though not a passenger plane, still relevant - Columbian AF C 130 Hercules, October 1982, en route between the Azores and Bermuda stayed afloat for two days.
Until now, there has never been an instance of a passenger plane water ditching in which there have not been any survivors
Seems like the number vary widely. Seems too that the unplanned arrivals (Northeast in Pensacola and JAL in SFO) are not listed as ditching but possibly CFITs.