ALM Antillean Airlines Flight 980 (1970)
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ALM Antillean Airlines Flight 980
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 McDonnell Douglas DC-9 on ALM Flight 980 which ditched in the Caribbean Sea, 30 miles east of St. Croix on 2 May 1970.
The Wikipedia article for ALM Flight 980 is embedded below:-
Source:ALM Flight 980, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALM_Flight_980