(October 20, 2015 at 7:51 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: Running out of fuel is not necessarily an uncontrolled descent.
Good point. There are different crash scenarios: a steep descent, or a low glide. Presumably a glide would be under pilot control, whereas a steep descent would be if the plane was on auto-pilot, the crew are dead, and the plane runs out of fuel at altitude.