What would happen if a air liner plane was falling out the sky?

Say if there was a engine failure on a plain, we were in mid-ocean or over land. Both engines, and back-up engines went down. All engines cut out. #1. If the plane was flying over mid-ocean with passengers aboard, would the plain hit the surface and float or would people just die?


#2. How would the plane land if was on land, and would people die?





Thanks.|||If all engines fail, the airliner can glide to a landing. All airplanes are capable of gliding without engines. A typical airliner can glide for more than 100 miles even if all engines fail.





In fact, airliners routinely glide during every flight, during their descent towards the airport. The engines are not turned off, but they are set to idle, and the airplane glides down to the airport. This is done because it uses very little fuel, and it's perfectly safe.





If an airplane with no engines is over land, it can glide to a landing on any flat spot it can find. Usually, there will be some sort of airport somewhere within gliding range, if the airplane is in an inhabited area. As long as it finds a flat spot to land, there's an excellent chance that nobody will be killed, and there will be few or no injuries.





If an airplane with no engines is over water, and there's no land within gliding range, it will have to land on the water. If the water is calm and smooth, the landing should be okay, and the airplane will float (as in the case of US Airways Flight 1549, which landed safely on the Hudson River). If the water is rough with waves and swells, as on the open ocean, the landing will probably be pretty violent, with people injured or perhaps killed. This was the case with Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961.|||With no engines, the plane turns into a giant glider, and the name of the game is selecting a good area to set down, and then getting the plane as slow as possible just before touchdown to minimize damage to both the plane and the people inside it. Clearly the people are the priority, so the pilot might decide to do a landing with the gear up, known as a belly landing, if he's landing somewhere that the wheels would not perform well, like maybe sand. When it's done right, and if it's only engine failure and not something scary like total hydraulics failure, there's a good chance people will walk away from it, especially if the problem is diagnosed at 35,000 feet, because then they can glide much farther, giving them more options for landing and maybe even putting an airport in range. Over water is trickier, and the gear is left up to try to keep the plane intact and turn the fuselage into a hull, so the plane can float for a while while the passengers are evacuating (the plane does not usually float very long, even when done correctly). Again, when it's done right, like the Hudson ditching last year, everyone walks away. But it's still a very dangerous situation that threatens the lives of all onboard.|||In general, you don't walk away from a major plane crash.. Hitting the water is going to be about the same as hitting concrete, except you have no chance of using your landing gear. Over land, if you're low enough, close enough to a landing area, and moving the right speed, you would have the best chance of survival, but that ideal situation is unlikely. Either way, you're still safer than driving a car in most areas.|||Falling off out of the sky requires the wing(s) to separate from the fuselage -


Such as an explosion - It happened to TWA 800 - It fell out of the sky -


As long as there are wings, it is likely that the aircraft will glide -


And that can be quite a sizeable distance if the aircraft is high -|||I'm no expert or plan to research this. But, my theory would be that the pilots would try to land the plane as safely as they could. Though if they were in a free-fall nose dive, chances are they're going to hit the water as hard as they would when they crash on land.





No survivors.|||Watch "Donny Darko"|||gotta get dat boom boom boom