Ian Flemming's He 111 plan

There was a story in The Times about a new Fleming exhibit at IWM.
His plan was that a captured He 111 would be ditched in the Channel with a Britrish crew and wait to be rescued by a German Rescue Launch.
The fliers would then take over the boat to get a codebook.

A full story can be found on this link…
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,347549,00.html

It never came off (in part) because of concerns for the crew’s safety during ditching.

From what I understand, that concern was well placed,
weren’t He 111s notoriously bad for water landings…(because of the glass forward fuselage)?