[DJlaysitup]

Did they ever find Fossett? Please tell me, I’m too lazy to look it up.

Yeah, they found him, he was dead.

But getting back to the subject - even if a pilot (for whatever reason) tried to land a plane (after flying up to 40,000 feet and killing all the passengers for some reason) take a 777 and try to land it on water and not let it come apart in some miracle fashion (like Sculley)...only to let it sink so he could slowly drown...could he do it - and WHY would he do it?

[MRadtke]

Keep in mind Scully put that plane down in a river, no waves to speak of. I believe the area the MA flight is thought to have gone down in is quite rough.

[jonose]

Why? 72 virgins?
Save family from being beheaded?
Went postal ?
We would never know because these reasons would be covered up.

[DB]

The auto pilot might be able to keep the plane mostly level after the engines ran out of fuel so that it wasn’t going all that fast when it hit the water.

Another big problem is there are large amounts of trash floating around in the water in those parts of the world. Whatever did float off the plane could be hidden among the trash.