@Makolo
The ditching was due to the fact that they had run out of fuel when the terrorists commandeered the aircraft 20min into the flight from it's intended stop which was Nairobi Jomo, and insisted they take them to Australia yet there wasn't enough fuel on board, the captains plea to at least make a refuelling stop fell on deaf ears, as they(the terrorists) had read on the inflight magazine that the 767 was able to fly 11 hours non stop and weren't convinced that there wasn't enough fuel.