"You don't have time to choose. You have two or three
options, and you pick the best one. There was no place on land to
land without hitting a house or car or something or people - so I
took the water."
Source: Paul Kauffman, 85 yr old pilot,
after successfully crash-landing his BD-4 homebuilt airplane on the
shores of East Grand Traverse Bay and walking away from the
accident.