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Old 3rd Jun 2011, 18:33
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Originally Posted by Litebulbs
... it (...) turned into an object under the affect of gravity as 34 seconds after the last speed reading, it was passing FL350 at -10000fpm
According to BEA, "the descent lasted 3 min 30, during which the airplane remained stalled". Since the descent actually lasted 3 min 22, that means the airplane stalled before reaching its apogee of FL380. I use the word apogee because that part of its trajectory was partially ballistic at less than 1g. My tentative trajectory confirms that.

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