While many jet airliners have either crashed into water or ran off
runways into water, very few jet airliners have been involved in an intentional
ditching. In this analysis, ditching is defined as an event where the flight crew
intentionally lands an aircraft in some body of water such as a lake, a river, or
the ocean. There are a number of other restrictions to the ditching definition
when used by AirSafe.com: