[Syntyr]

“It all goes back to basics.
Not enough forward speed to create lift.
You crash.................”

He ran out of Altitude, Airspeed and Ideas all at the same time.

Run out of 1 and you can trade the otehr to gain that one.

Run out of 2 and you are in trouble!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Seen the movie “Flight” yet? Capt Whip Whitaker (Denzell Washington) was quickly running out of altitude after an in-flight control failure. He sure didn’t run out of ideas!

[American Constitutionalist]

Yup, even if you lose the engines and are at a high altitude you can still keep airspeed by keeping the nose down and hope that there is a acceptable place to land close by and try to land the plane safely, it has been done before.