The former Reagan NTSB guy said 1400ft per second then corrected himself to say 1400ft per minute...the chick on Fox never picked up the correction and just went with the wrong figure...
I was passing by the TV and thought, just damn! Thanks for the info.
1400 feet per minute is a VERY high sink rate that close to the runway for any airplane. I question how that information was obtained. But assuming it is correct, why did that happen? Only two possibilities short of intentional pilot nefariousness: stall or microburst. I suppose the pilot could have been exhausted and allowed the plane to get too slow and stall. Or an unexpected microburst could have cropped up and forced the plane to descend too fast and hit the seawall. In either case, that anyone survived is pretty miraculous...
But then that comes to like 60mph, which is still not a feasible groundspeed. Must be 1,400fpm of descent.