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Originally Posted by notorious
He lost 800' of altitude in 10-11 seconds at the end. Holy shit. Controlled decent in a small airplane averages 500 fpm.
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Yeah, my brain scrambled there and I was reading the wrong side of the graph. He was clearly descending pretty quickly at the end there.
Now the negative vertical speed makes more sense. The tight scale of the correct axis and short timeline threw me off. Losing 800 feet relative to sea level in 11 seconds is incredibly dramatic.
So now I wonder if maybe there WAS some kind of catastrophic failure on the aircraft. What else would've had him giving up altitude like that when he's clearly looking to find visibility and has already held down low (and knows full well that getting below the cloud deck isn't a realistic possibility).