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.
Sure we do -- if the last ping was 8:11 and there was no 9:11 ping, then it ditched or crashed during that hour.
All we know is the last time of contact.
Yeh -- the last time of contact with a running engine.
Seeing as how the plane was travelling away from the sunrise, the sky may not have been that bright.
It was flying southeast -- into the sunrise -- so the opposite is true.
With a homicidal pilot at the controls of a 777, I doubt that everything went as planned.
At that point what did he have to lose -- he's already killed 238 people -- what's one more???
If he kills himself trying to scuttle it and drowns, he goes down as either a suicidal pilot or a hero trying to save the plane.
A failed scuttle is as good as a crash at that point.
Either way his family collects $10 million of insurance payouts
If he survives he changes his identity and helps his family spend that $10 million while tinfoilers spend the next 20 years looking for the plane in Diego Garcia and Pakistan.