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It wasn’t night time — it was 8:00 in the morning.
And if ditching a plane in water is not survivable then why are planes to designed for such ditching emergencies, and flight crews trained for ditching emergencies, and passengers provided life vests and flotation devices for such ditching emergencies.
Water landings happen all the time and passengers and crew and fuselages survive them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_landing
We don’t actually know when the plane quit aviating. All we know is the last time of contact. Seeing as how the plane was travelling away from the sunrise, the sky may not have been that bright.
Ditching is a polite way of saying, soft crash.
The flotation devices are provided in case you find your once high and dry butt surrounded by water. The airlines will never say, ‘crash into the ocean’. Ditch is such a nicer word.
My point was that for the plane to have survived intact, everything would have had to work out perfectly.
With a homicidal pilot at the controls of a 777, I doubt that everything went as planned.