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Out of curiosity Bar, or anyone, say an airplane pancakes into the runway or ground flat with the mains out, what kind of vertical speed descent rate would be fatal? I think airplanes have landed at 1600 fpm before?

Are you including William (Don'tcha just love the feel of gold) Devane who can go from airborne>landed>stoped>prop stopped> outside pitching gold in .00000003 seconds?
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