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To: Blood of Tyrants

They were high enough (32,000 ft) to have plenty of time to recover from a stall.

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True enough, but a passenger jet that size can lose altitude very rapidly. I think it only takes a couple of minutes.


33 posted on 01/21/2015 11:50:11 AM PST by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: Moonman62

True enough, but a passenger jet that size can lose altitude very rapidly. I think it only takes a couple of minutes.
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I’m in Central Fl ,, typically arriving jets at MCO start a slow descent at the FL/GA border and then when 10-15 miles out descend at 5-6000’/min ... COME ON DOWN! There is no reason to lose control to the point you crash and burn when you have 32,000 feet to recover in... I think this is another Airbus software failure compounded by inexperienced pilots... when you design an aircraft so the computer overrules the pilot(s) and then you put bad data into the ‘puter people die.


66 posted on 01/21/2015 4:19:51 PM PST by Neidermeyer ("Our courts should not be collection agencies for crooks." — John Waihee, Governor of Hawaii, 1986-)
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