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Just going for a swim (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by tudor@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe. Can anyone illuminate the 80% statistic? I'd like to know what it actually means.

EDIT: Love when I ask a good-faith question and it gets downvotes because someone answered it.

[–] BottleOfAlkahest@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Not maybe, yes. Thats what it means. "Water ditching" is a common colloquial name for an "emergency water landing" which is a type of emergency landing. A plane doing a nose dive straight into the water is not an emergency landing. That's just a run of the mill crash.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_landing

The US forest service says it's 90% but I'm not sure where they get that number from either.

https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5139786.pdf