Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 (2002)

Garuda Indonesia Flight 421

One of the contentious issues relating to Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is what may have happened when the aircraft ran out of fuel.

The two 'end-of-flight' scenarios are:-

1. when the fuel was exhausted the aircraft simply rapidly lost altitude in an uncontrolled dive and crashed violently into the ocean, or
2. a pilot, probably Captain Shah, was still conscious and in control; the aircraft glided for some distance before landing on the ocean in a controlled manner, known as 'ditching'.

Several examples of ditching are included for reference here, including a Boeing 737 on Garuda Indonesia Flight 421 which ditched on the Bengawan Solo River, Java, on 16 January 2002.

The Wikipedia article for Garuda Flight 421 is embedded below:-

Source:Garuda Indonesia Flight 421, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garuda_Indonesia_Flight_421

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