Originally Posted by
BearX220
This was the incident that pretty much put the lie to the idea of the pillow-soft, no-worries water landing as depicted on the emergency card. Calm sea, no wind, full daylight, fully controllable aircraft, and still everything went to hell
I'm not saying that ditching is not fraught with all sorts of perils, but complicating the ditching was that the
hijackers grabbed the controls and fought with the pilots with the new objective of turning the hijacking into a suicide mission. The ditching might have gone better without the, ahem, distraction facing the pilot.