[mytailorisrich]

Debris of the plane were recovered. The plane crashed.

[Cthulhu_]

No doubt, the question is whether it was a catastrophic crash, a glide down, or an attempted controlled landing; there's no way to land on water without some parts coming off. The brunt of the wreckage has never been found.

[jtc331]

What is in dispute isn’t that it crashed but how it crashed.

[mytailorisrich]

I am replying to a specific comment not to the article in general.