Originally posted by BoeingBobby
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Now, the problem is that it is suspected (based on aerodynamic models and flight simulations) that, unlike Air France that was in a stall with an airspeed of 100 and something knots, the MH plane was in a spiral dive. A spiral dive with the plane not stalled and descending at 25000 fpm will certainly means overspeed. This can effectively mean a basically pulverized plane where the black box would be the largest part. But I would not be surprised if the plane broke apart in flight, which would mean big chunks again.
*it is amazing that the combination of non-decimal garbage factors you guys do in the imperial units can lead to 100 fpm = 1 knot. One knot is one nautical mile per hour and one fpm is one feet per minute. I will not comment on the difference between hour and minute, the former being 60 times greater than the second (well, I did comment), but a nautical mile is a minute of latitude (what mean that the circumference of the Earth is 60 minutes per degree times 360 degrees = 21600 arc-minutes = 21600 miles). The foot was defined as 12 inches, and the inch as three lengths of a barleycorn, and the barleycorn as the length of a grain of sound ripe barley being taken out the middle of the ear, well dried. THat all this time and length factors craziness conspire to produce a 1:100 ratio is certainly outstanding!!! (even when it is not exactly 1:100, rather 0.99:100).
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