WOMAN, SON DITCH PLANE IN OCEAN, SWIM TO SHORE

A woman pilot ditched her plane into the sea, and she and her son then swam to shore. Michelle Yeats was flying back to Perth, Australia with her 15-year-old son Jake after viewing the solar eclipse in Western Australia’s north when the plane’s engine cut out at about 5 p.m. She sent a mayday and made a snap decision to try for a water landing. Yeats, a commercial pilot, said she had trained for such a landing “many, many times,” but did not ever expect to have to do it for real. The plane came down about 30-50 yards off Leightons Beach. People on the beach swam out to help them get back to shore. Neither Yeats nor her son suffered any injuries. The plane quickly sunk below the surface.
* Pretty cool mom, right?
* They survived a plane crash, had to swim in the ocean full of sharks and stonefish and blue-ring octopuses, back to the land full of brown snakes, crocodiles, giant spiders, toxic trees and rugby players. Not today, Australia!
* I would have gone down with the plane.
* I bet next time, they remember to fill the tank.
* Other than that, how was the eclipse?