Although his parachute caught on fire, it deposited him safely in the ocean, about three miles out.
"Safely" is clearly a relative term here. Safer than being on a beach with an umbrella for shade, watching girls in bikinis while drinking fruity drinks with names you will never remember brought to you by cabana boys every bit as lovely as the girls in bikinis? No, not by a long shot. But, safer than being in a burning airplane carrying fully functional nuclear weapons.
