Water Landings

My husband and I are in final preparations for our trip to Australia and New Zealand. We started talking about the flight (a very long one at that), which then led to getting off an airplane in an emergency. I’m not a big fan of flying, enough so that I actually read the emergency procedures card in the seat pocket in front of me, locate my closest exit, and know for a fact that floor illumination system isn’t going to come on for anything beyond a hard landing.

Terry mentioned we may be seated in an exit row which is fine by me – open the door and you’re zipping down the inflatable slide. We moved to the “in the event of a water landing” drill we’ll get and it suddenly occurred to us that we’ve never even heard of a plane making an emergency landing in the middle of the ocean, deploying the rafts, and having passengers safely rescued. That is, except for Airport ‘77. Only a writer, of course, could come up with that scenario and throw in terrorists and the Bermuda Triangle for good measure. Bon Voyage!