Japan Air Lines Flight 350 (1982)
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Japan Air Lines Flight 350
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, including a Douglas DC-8 on Japan Air Lines Flight 350 which crashed in shallow water about 510 metres short of the Haneda Airport runway on 9 February 1982. This incident was more of a crash into water than a controlled ditching onto water. There were 24 fatalities.
The Wikipedia article for Japan Air Lines Flight 350 is embedded below:-
Source:Japan Air Lines Flight 350, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Air_Lines_Flight_350