Seems as tho we’re having airplane ‘suddenlies’.
Somebody here nailed it yesterday. “If it’s Boeing, I’m not going.”
Rapid descent? 26,900 feet (5miles) in 15 minutes is 20 mph.
3 in a week that we know of.
Weird, right?
/s
Things like this happen when when you hire DIE coders for your computerized aircraft controls.
I always thought it was a poor business decision by Boeing to abandon the 717 leaving an large opportunity to Airbus with the 220. The “small” 737 now can cram in over 170. The largest can hold 230.
The 717 also had the innovation of all fresh air instead of re-circulating cabin air, as I recall.
If you hold any BA stock, dump it. The 2nd shoe to drop is the non-return of astronauts due to an unsafe space capsule. The will load it up with return garbage from the ISS and send it home unmanned due to leaks. Your looking at the end of Boeing.
That must be one of the hyperventilating passengers. Or maybe she's just hyperbolic all the time.
I don’t know what current ATC guidelines are for commercial airliners with passengers but absent an emergency, I seem to recall a “normal” descent, either enroute or on approach, would have been approx 500 ft/min. This one, at 1,700 ft/min +/-, should not be considered fear inducing or in any way beyond the aircraft’s capabilities.
Less than 1,800 ft/min . . . I don’t think that’s too remarkable, even for an airliner. I certainly wouldn’t call it “rapid.”
Are any technical details on this incident yet available?