Well now wait a minute...
If we had a crazed muzzie on a suicide mission, he would NOT have ditched the aircraft (which is more of less survivable depending on water conditions, skill and luck). He would have just split-essed the thing into the sea.
So if these details are true... what was on that aircraft that was wanted bad enough to risk ditching it to recover?
Think Thunderball...
It makes sense to try and “land” on water rather than just crash if you are muslim. If a muslim drowns they go straight to heaven no questions asked. If they land hard and die on impact, no automatic heaven.
No, as other posts attest to, he was trying to do a Sully, and then the suicide.
He was trying to have it all ways: proven not a good Muslim (gee, that almost seems to be a trend); flight sim fanatic who had a top amateur flight sim setup in his home; so in his warped mind, 'hold muh Koran and watch this, I'll Sully in the Indian Ocean' - which is x2 in degree of difficulty to be certain -- and then 'sink it for jihad'.