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Old 28th Jul 2008, 02:52
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Speedbird61
 
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Rapid Decent

With the recent incident with QF, I wanted to ask what feelings do passengers get during a rapid decent ? do you feel massive negative g as you do when you hit sudden airpockets ?

Also if this is a standard procedure, it would make a big difference if the flight crew would tell passengers whats going on, and not to panic, as we are in a rapid decent mode.

Many passengers on QF30 said they thought they were going to crash into the sea, as the rapid decent lasted 10 minutes.
This would be very terrifying for passengers if they did not know what was going on, and 10 minutes would seem like an hour.
I know the tech crew would be busy, but it would help to know whats going on, is this the case ?

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