Plane ditches into Pacific lagoon

"Air Niugini can confirm that all on board were able to safely evacuate the aircraft,"

Hurrah!

If the pilot was in any doubt that he could not make a safe landing he should have aborted it and retried.

Don’t blame the pilot, he saved everybody’s lives.

Wow! Great to hear that everyone got out safely. Congratulations to the pilot for putting his passengers first.

Don’t blame the pilot, he saved everybody’s lives.

Well, if the pilots landed short of the runway by their own mistakes, they actually endangered everyones' lives, and only sheer luck led to everyone walking (or swimming) away from this. This is called an uncontrolled (unintended) ditching, and came as a result of a situational and control loss..

"there were no serious injuries."

Fantastic! Well done! Hey, any landing you can walk away from is a good landing!

Judging by the photo, the cloud ceiling was low which may have contributed.

Congratulations to the pilot for putting his passengers first

The guy missed the runway!! Not much ground for congratulations.

@Asakaze We don't know the reasons yet why the pilot was not able to land on the runway, but the pilot was able to put the plane in a lagoon, as opposed to crashing and burning on the ground. Everyone walked away ( or in this case was able to walk once they got on dry land ) from the landing. Bravo to the pilot and the rescuers in the boats!

Any landing you can swim away from is a good landing.

@Serrano

We don't know the reasons yet why the pilot was not able to land on the runway

There is no word about technical malfunctions. And if there is no adverse weather conditions, like strong winds, rain or something like that, usually the main reason for missing the runway is the pilot's error.

Good to see the armchair pilots who weren't there and know nothing about flying a plane are out in force offering their advice

That body of water needs a name change to Upchuuk Lagoon.

Goodluckto you,Don’t blame the pilot, he saved everybody’s lives. we I do firstly the pilot is in charge he should have aborted the landing, ive been in that situation a few times, 1 was a pilot not soloing ago coming into land aborted and retried, as there was a load of birds on the runway which had to be scared off first.

CLA68, "Judging by the photo, the cloud ceiling was low which may have contributed". not really as plains are guided in by a bunch of people in a control tower that monitor the airline movements, they have a serfisticated. radar system that monitors hight, speed position.

the report says that the pilot landed short of the run way, may be it down to engine failure? or bird strike? or lack of fuel,