water landing
Ditching at sea
A water landing is an emergency aircraft landing on water rather than a runway.
The term is most familiar from flight attendant safety briefings explaining that seat cushions can be used as flotation devices in the event of a water landing.
Successful water landings—sometimes called ditchings—are rare but not unheard of.
Hastily discarding something
- splashdownSpacecraft's water landing
- pilotOne who steers aircraft
- aircraftAirborne transportation vehicle
- glideMove with effortless continuity
mayday · cockpit · altimeter · airspeed · brace position · flight attendant · evacuation · transponder
Hastily discarding something
- crashSudden violent impact
- impactForceful contact or consequence
- collisionForceful contact between objects
- capsizingWatercraft inverting suddenly
submersion · sinking · wreckage · disaster · accident · flooding · engulfment · catastrophe
Spacecraft's water landing
- capsuleEnclosed dose container
- reentryComing back in
- parachuteDrag-creating descent device
- ApolloSun deity, moonshot namesake
Gemini · SpaceX · astronaut · heat shield · NASA · Pacific Ocean · Atlantic Ocean · spacecraft
Emergency vessel for survivors
- life vestWearable buoyancy aid
- flotationAbility to stay afloat
- raftFlat water conveyance
- rescueSave from harm
evacuation · survivor · beacon · distress signal · SOS · hypothermia · dehydration · buoyancy
Hole-boring device
- simulationImitation of real processes
- instructorOne who teaches skills
- flight schoolPilot training institution
- procedurePrescribed sequence of actions
certification · emergency protocol · evacuation drill · safety briefing · checklist
ditching
Hastily discarding something
- splashdownSpacecraft's water landing
- pilotOne who steers aircraft
- aircraftAirborne transportation vehicle
glide · mayday · cockpit · altimeter · airspeed · brace position · flight attendant · evacuation · transponder · black box
ditching
Hastily discarding something
- crashSudden violent impact
- impactForceful contact or consequence
- collisionForceful contact between objects
capsizing · submersion · sinking · wreckage · disaster · accident · flooding · engulfment · catastrophe · foundering
splashdown
Spacecraft's water landing
Apollo · Gemini · SpaceX · astronaut · heat shield · NASA · Pacific Ocean · Atlantic Ocean · spacecraft
lifeboat
Emergency vessel for survivors
rescue · evacuation · survivor · beacon · distress signal · SOS · hypothermia · dehydration · buoyancy · shelter
drill
Hole-boring device
- simulationImitation of real processes
- instructorOne who teaches skills
- flight schoolPilot training institution
procedure · certification · emergency protocol · evacuation drill · safety briefing · checklist
- aviation disastersplane crash, air crash, midair collision, crash site, crashes
- spacecraft landingsplashdown, touchdown, controlled descent, retrorocket, retrorockets
- flight eventstakeoff, liftoff, flight, launch, descent
- landingstouchdown, touch and go, controlled descent, splashdown, ditching
- seaplane flyingfloatplane, pontoons, hull, docking, buoyancy
- descentsrappelling, abseiling, lowering, parachuting, skydiving