less than thirty minutes into silkair flight 185 with hicks aboard, the flight began a sudden, radical, high-speed nosedive at 35,000 feet toward the musi river. the plane reached such a high velocity that it broke into pieces in the air before being scattered across the river's surface. local fisherman immediately scoured the crash site for survivors, even though by all accounts the scene appeared devastatingly hopeless. both hicks and dalrymple perished along with all of the rest of the passengers and crew. no one ever found even a single intact body.