Mark,
 
ml> there may not have been much chance of gliding... my understanding is
ml> that at some point it would possibly have entered "phugoid
mode" wherein
ml> as it dove and picked up speed, it would then generate lift and climb
ml> until it ran out of speed... then it would fall again and pick up speed
ml> over and over until it finally was not able to sustain this (aka)
ml> "porpoise" mode and then came down... it could have
travelled quite far
ml> doing this...
 
If it had been a purpose-built glider then "yes".
 
Aircraft of this type and size have only one direction to go without a
functioning engine and that is "down".
 
There is a tremendous drag which does not allow for such an airplane to
lift its nose because the loss of forward momentum will be instant and
dramatic. The result is a stall that is not recoverable because there is no
forward momentum anymore provided by engines.
 
In order to maintain the forward momentum and create lift, the plane has to
be in a constant nose-down attitude.
 
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