The plane would never have gone supersonic. If it ran out of fuel it would glide itself into the sea. Very few of the debris from a plane crash wreckage would remain afloat for more than a few weeks. If the plane broke up on impact, the floating debris field will disperse in a week or two and will almost completely disappear in a few weeks to a few months. It would not surprise me at all if, because the exact location of the crash was not pin pointed for some time, and there were not any nearby beach’s for the debris to wash onto before they had time to sink, that no visual contact with any floating debris was made.
I heard the contention that flapperon fragment show it hit water while deployed. But that was shortly after the fragment was first found and I believe was given more as a hypothetical thing indicating what can be learned from one such fragment. I heard several more recent sources say the flapperon fragment indicate it was in fact not deployed prior to water entry.
If the theory about the pilot wanting to kill himself is right, why would he faciliting a potentially more drawn out death by configuring the plane for a potentially survivable water landing? Why not let the plane fly into the water to hasten his own demise?
This is an very remote part of the ocean seldom traversed by any marine or air traffic. The nearest beach is a couple of years away at normal drift speed.
I heard the contention that flapperon fragment show it hit water while deployed. But that was shortly after the fragment was first found and I believe was given more as a hypothetical thing indicating what can be learned from one such fragment. I heard several more recent sources say the flapperon fragment indicate it was in fact not deployed prior to water entry.
If the theory about the pilot wanting to kill himself is right, why would he faciliting a potentially more drawn out death by configuring the plane for a potentially survivable water landing? Why not let the plane fly into the water to hasten his own demise?
This is an very remote part of the ocean seldom traversed by any marine or air traffic. The nearest beach is a couple of years away at normal drift speed.
