Terrifying to be sure, but compare the potential survivability of that crash with this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbPU6yZetlw
If you wanted to kill everyone on the plane you would not attempt a conventional water landing gear or not.
If you wanted to kill everyone on the plane you would not attempt a conventional water landing gear or not.
In the end, I'm not settled on this & we really need to find & recover the plane.