Originally Posted by
ecureilx
... except in the rare cases, such as that of the african 767 (forgot the of carrier .. ) where the pilot hit one enginer in the water, and ended up anyway cart-wheeling the rest of the aircraft
IIRC, the hijackers were interfering with the controls all the way down to the surface. We don't know what would have happened if the pilots had been allowed to fly the aircraft to a properly controlled ditching, unmolested.