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Old 05-25-2014 | 06:36 AM
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Originally Posted by totaldigger
But not as scary as the United plane that "descended 600 feet in 60 seconds." Those poor passengers!

That could have been an average 600 FPM. If they had an RA, they probably didn't take the full 60 secs to get down Might have been 600 feet in six seconds.
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