Originally Posted by
Gysbreght
No one actually knows the seastate at the time and place flight MH370 ended. I didn't imply that a controlled ditching was easy or likely to be successful. There is also nothing to suggest that a ditching (or anything else, for that matter) was 'planned'.
If you're intentionally flying out into the middle of the ocean where you'll run out of fuel over water, you're planning to either crash or ditch, because those are your only two options. Unless you get raptured away by aliens first.
Yes, there's a tiny chance that someone just decided to fly out into the ocean on a whim, then said 'oh, crap, I'm out of fuel, I'd better try to ditch', but that's not something you can base a very expensive search operation on. The best evidence available right now says it ran out of fuel and probably spiralled into the sea.