Considering that the optimal glide speed of a 777 delivers a rate of descent of ~800fpm, I think we can rule out it "gently " hit the water.

Just because a jet cruising at 10,000m runs out of fuel doesnt mean it will slow down and land gently. The likely scenerio of it getting put on a course where the crew was either locked out of the controls or physically incapacitated means that the aircraft woiuld have follow the heading and altitude until it ran out…

Minimum airspeed for a Boeing 777 is 170kts, or 195mph. A Boeing 777-200 is 209 feet long. Even the calmest seas will be rocking enough to break the back of an airplane that long just resting in them, let alone impacting at 200mph.

Except for the fact none of that is actually true.

when you are discussing dangerous materials and their tendency to catch fire, you list off examples of recent events of them doing so, the cause of fires are not the issue here, it's that they have happened, and lithium ion batteries have, do, and will continue to be a dangerous good in that regard

"I suppose this serves to remind us that Cleese remains restricted to the confines of being a sexist old British man. Sigh."

The Marine Corps finally got onboard a few years ago and the MARSOC Critical Skills Operator was born and MARSOC is under the SOCOM. They gutted the Force Recon Companies in order to do so and for a while Force Recon was no longer. Eventually they got the Force Recon back under the control of the MAGTF. Now the…

He isn't allowed to travel first class. If he is traveling in uniform he is probably traveling on official business and quite possibly doesn't have the option to travel in civies. When traveling in uniform you aren't allowed to sit anywhere other than coach, even if someone offers for free. The DoD got too many…

Since you clearly don't have any military experience...because Gawker...when you travel on military duty, your uniform is your dress blues. Getting is pressed between the time you depart a flight and the time you have to report for duty is often impossible. That's kind of a big deal in an environment when your…