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originally posted by: CagliostroTheGreat
a reply to: GeminiSky
Indeed, GeminiSky.
Which brings us to the real meat of the situation: where the hell is it? Where the hell are all those people.
It seems foolish to think that, as stayed in your OP, that with modern tracking tech (the extent of which I can only assume remains classified) we can lose track of something as large as a plane.
originally posted by: CagliostroTheGreat
a reply to: GeminiSky
Indeed, GeminiSky.
Which brings us to the real meat of the situation: where the hell is it? Where the hell are all those people.
It seems foolish to think that, as stayed in your OP, that with modern tracking tech (the extent of which I can only assume remains classified) we can lose track of something as large as a plane.
originally posted by: Aliensun
a reply to: GeminiSky
I agree with about 99% of what you say except for one small point. A plane, even a large plane can fall into the ocean if it is done a certain way rather than straight or nearly straight down as we normally tend to thing, Yes, it was a big plane but big planes are built to be big and handle the forces that they encounter.
As somewhat sort of proof of my position, I'm reminded of the pilot, Skulley, that had birds kill his engines a few years ago going out of a NY airport. He turned the plane around around and unable to make it to the nearest airport, he took it into the Hudson river. No loss of life and I'm sure most of the plane was reusable after a fashion.
I've also seen at least one video of a passenger jet crashing into the sea by a sea shore. While I believe it did part of a cartwheel, it certainly didn't disintegrate totally on impact. I know some of the more dramatic early telling about of the plane said that, "Oh, man, at speed the water is just like concrete, there would be little left of the plane but small pieces."
It would depend upon the pilots and how they handled the plane. If it was a "dead stick" landing on water and not an actual crash, there would be little to float. all of the seats, which float, would be intact and inside the body of the craft along with all human bodies, luggage, etc. the debris field would need not be extensive. The parts of the aircraft most likely to be torn off would have been the engines and housings. Being metal, they would have sunk immediately.
Given the circumstances, I would bet that as the engines ran out of fuel the pilots, realizing that the end was at hand would have coaxed the large ship down the best they could into a glide into the water.