Maybe he should have landed it in the water instead, then he could have let go and dived at the last moment so that he wouldn’t have gotten crushed. I guess landing planes without wings, even as this kind of superhero, is not something that you prepare for.
Most of the buoyancy a plane has in case of a water landing comes from the large surface area of the wings (plus the wings likely being partially to mostly empty of fuel). Without the wings what you have is a metal tube.
Maybe he should have landed it in the water instead, then he could have let go and dived at the last moment so that he wouldn’t have gotten crushed. I guess landing planes without wings, even as this kind of superhero, is not something that you prepare for.
Most of the buoyancy a plane has in case of a water landing comes from the large surface area of the wings (plus the wings likely being partially to mostly empty of fuel). Without the wings what you have is a metal tube.