One might also call this "Airline Fact of the Day":
My friend Peter Thompson did some research on this. At least going back to 1970, which by my estimation encompasses over 150 million commercial airline flights, there has not been a single water landing! (Some planes explode and fall into the water, but he couldn’t find anything resembling a water landing where any of those instructions might help you.) So perhaps 15 billion customer trips have heard that 10-15 second set of instructions without it ever being useful to anyone.
That is from Steve Levitt. Here is the official site of Unlikely. Here are unlikely stories.
Addendum: Do read the comments, the "fact" appears to be wrong…
There was this crash a few years ago:
http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9611/24/ethiopia.hijack/index.html
There have been a few rare water landings (the Ethiopia Airlines flight mentioned in a previous comment comes to mind), and also several cases of aircraft failing to take off and rolling into a body of water. Wikipedia has a list.
More detailed reports on a few:
Tuninter 1153 (2005, ditched in the ocean)
USAir 5050 (1989, rolled off the end of the runway at LaGuardia)
Ethiopian Airlines 961 (1996, hijacking/forced ditch in ocean)
And closer to your home, Air Florida Flight 90 pulled four survivors from the icy Potomac, although admittedly it hit the 14th Street bridge first. http://www.airdisaster.com/special/special-af90.shtml
Some of the flight attendants on the flights I’ve been on lately have been rather sarcastic during the safety presentations… “Just in case there is someone on this flight who has NEVER RIDDEN IN A CAR in the past 20 years, the FAA requires that we give you the following demonstration of how to fasten your seatbelt…”
Alaska Airlines crashed in to the Pacific Ocean in 2000 because of defective tail controls.
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