Japan Air Lines Flight 2 (1968)
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Japan Air Lines Flight 2
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:-
- when the fuel was exhausted the aircraft simply rapidly lost altitude in an uncontrolled dive and crashed violently into the ocean, or
- 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 Douglas DC-8 on Japan Air Lines Flight 2 which ditched in San Francisco Bay, about 4 km short of the San Francisco International Airport runway on 22 November 1968.
The Wikipedia article for Japan Air Lines Flight 2 is embedded below:-
Source:Japan Air Lines Flight 2, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Flight_2