Not so.

ANY aircraft will come down at any stage of flight for the right reason or converging set of circumstances.

The fact that the flight was lost in the dead of night, adds more possibilities to the mix.

In the early 1990s an otherwise perfectly functioning Boeing 757 was lost at sea in the dead of night because of one pito tube being plugged by a mud dauber nest built in one of the two pito tubes that measure air speed of the craft. The conflicting on-board electronic instruments malfunctioning that followed, led the captain to believe his plane was in an overspeed situation, causing him to stall the craft into the sea. It was a very unfortunate incident, that may have been rectified if the incident had happened in the light of day, where the captain would have realized he was in a stall, not diving in an overspeed situation.