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In aviation, a water landing is, in the broadest sense, an aircraft landing on a body of water. Seaplanes , such as floatplanes and flying boats , land on water as a normal operation. Ditching [ 1 ] is a controlled emergency landing on the water surface in an aircraft not designed for the purpose, a very rare occurrence. [ 2 ]
Three Canadair CL-215 amphibious flying boats. The following is a list of seaplanes, which includes floatplanes and flying boats.A seaplane is any airplane that has the capability of landing and taking off from water, while an amphibian is a seaplane which can also operate from land.
Splashdown is the method of landing a spacecraft or launch vehicle in a body of water, usually by parachute. This has been the primary recovery method of American capsules including NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Orion along with the private SpaceX Dragon.
The crew consisted of Captain George T. Kunz (age 55), employed by National Airlines since 1956, who had qualified to fly the Boeing 727 in 1967 and accumulated 18,109 flight hours in his career with 5,358 hours on the Boeing 727; First Officer Leonard G. Sanderson Jr. (31), employed by National Airlines since 1976, with 4,848 flight hours of which 842 hours were on the Boeing 727; and Flight ...
Seaplanes were commonly used in World War II for reconnaissance and search and rescue. They were launched from ships or seaplane tenders, or could take off from water in the right conditions. A seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water. [1]
Spirit Airliens flight NK270 was forced to return to island’s Montego Bay shortly after takeoff
Aeroflot Flight 366 (Russian: Рейс 366 Аэрофлота), also known as the Miracle on the Neva, was a water landing by a Tupolev Tu-124 of the Soviet state airline Aeroflot (Moscow division). The aircraft took off from Tallinn -Ülemiste Airport ( TLL ) at 08:55 on 21 August 1963 with 45 passengers and 7 crew on board. [ 1 ]
After a dry run the plane touched down at 6:15 a.m., at 90 knots (100 mph; 170 km/h) with full flaps and landing gear retracted, in sight of the Pontchartrain at 30°02′N 140°09′W. [3] On touching the water, the plane moved along the surface for a few hundred yards before one wing hit a swell , causing the plane to rotate nearly 180 ...