Thank you for the replies. That is really interesting! Let's leave the oxygen masks and the panicking passengers out of it, I just want to talk about the actual sensation in the cabin.
CV, if you say that you cannot feel 5,000 ft per minute any more than 500 ft per minute, my next question is this: would the pilots accelerate the aircraft faster out of the cruising altitude when initiating an emergency descent than they would when starting a "normal" descent from the cruise?
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