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Originally Posted by Gjn290
Just heard on the local news that it decsended 7000 feet in one minute. Don't know if that's true just what they said.
Just reminds you that it could be anyone of us any day. RIP and tailwinds to the crew. Condolences to the families and UPS pilot group.
First off, never believe the news. They are starving for something to keep fueling the story so they can sell commercials. I just watched that tool Darby throw the pilots under the bus using info from Flightaware too. Seriously dude! What a tool!
FYI next time you do a flight go back and look at it on Flightaware. Many times I went back to see how we did and at times it said we were doing less than 200kts ground speed (we had a tail wind so.....) at cruise and showed sudden drops in altitude of up to 6000f/m. Yeah hardly the profile we flew.
Bottom line is that if there were a free program on the internet that could accurately define a fast moving objects point in space why would we need radar and air traffic control facilities? You could just provide Flightaware services from your couch