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Old 03-26-2015, 09:09 AM  
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Originally Posted by MaDalton View Post
which is totally not the point here.

the point is that people sit in a plane, hardly notice the descent when it's at normal rate and even when someone starts wondering, it won't be until 1-2 mins before the crash (planes btw descent and climb all the time to change flight levels).

and at that time still not in panic because you can't even tell how high you are when you fly over mountains

but of course if all passengers were an expert like you are..
Dude, plane was losing altitude at the speed of highest to ground in 8 minutes. That is the speed which you feel as a passenger.
So you feel the non stopping descent for the whole 8 minutes!
Change of altitude happens, as you say, but it does not happen at this rate. Neither in speed of descent, nor in time of how long it continues at once...
People would start getting cold sweat and increased heart beat after just 1 minute of non stop descent like that!
In 2nd minute they would start shitting their pants!
So the only thing to calm them down would be for cabbin crew to "explain" something.
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