Not “water landing,” but crash into the ocean. There is no use of the word “landing” in the article. This is one reason why we should not change article titles.
Look, any water landing is going to be a crash. Unless you’re in a flying boat.
But when your pilot comes on the intercom and tells you that he is going to try and put the plane down in the water, he isn’t going to say “I’m going to crash the plane.”
Calling Capt. “Sully”...
it is pure nonsense to suggest that it was a controlled ocean landing....totally impossible with a modern 777 aircraft....I know, there was a jet landing on the Hudson, but that was an amazing feat....why would the pilot fly 6 hours and then attempt a landing on water???
Not “water landing,” but crash into the ocean. There is no use of the word “landing” in the article.
Well, maybe not ‘landing’, but ‘landed’.
He told 60 Minutes that an absence of such wreckage was one factor suggesting MH370 ‘landed’ in controlled circumstances.