Originally Posted by
garpal gumnut
Witnesses say it fell out of the sky silently before hitting the sea with a crash.
Do aircraft crashing into the sea or land mass <10 mins after takeoff tend to do it silently?
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I think that you're placing a lot of emphasis on a very ambiguous statement, made by an untrained observer who was an unknown distance from the accident, which was translated from his native language to English by persons unknown. None of the other facts that we know, or think we know about this accident are remotely consistent with fuel exhaustion.