737 fell like a rock
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Missile or bomb. Even with an engine failure, they could glide for hundreds of miles.
not hundreds. there is a ratio available, I don’t know it, but without engines you don’t get very far.
Rule of thumb for a large plane like a 737 is about 2 miles per thousand feet if it is not turning. So from FL300, around 60 miles. But the speed would need to be constant. Somewhere between 200 - 300 knots. This was a completely uncontrolled crash.
Yeah I get that. Looks like they pushed the stick forward then took a nap.
But you'd stay in the air at 30,00 feet for more than 3 min as depicted by this graph, right....
Only explanation is a structural failure causing a very deep stall that was unrecoverable. If the wings got torn off, for example, that would cause the flight profile seen here. A missile or bomb would obviously be one type of event that could cause such a structural failure.
The video shows the plane going in completely vertical. So there was no glide angle at all.
Yep, even a gas like fentanyl being released into the cockpit, wouldn't turn the autopilot off. Something bad happened to that plane. They just don't come apart in mid-air.