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Blue Water Ditching: Training Professional Crewmembers for the Unthinkable Disaster
Montgomery, Dave. North Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.: CreateSpace, 2012. 139 pp. Figures, tables, photographs.
Fly the ocean in a silver plane
See the jungle when it’s wet with rain …
The idea of flying the ocean in a silver plane sounded romantic when Patsy Cline sang about it; nowadays it’s routine for passengers and pilots alike. But sometime, somewhere, it will be anything but routine — in fact, a potential disaster.
“It is a safe bet to predict that there will be a blue-water ditching by an airliner, freighter or large corporate aircraft in the near future,” says Montgomery, a former U.S. Air Force command pilot and today a Gulfstream IV captain for NetJets. In 1991, he participated in operational testing of an amphibious aircraft in the Atlantic…
