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Old 20th Jan 2015, 18:12
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re 8000 ft/min

So where did SAMPUBLIUS get his info from re 8000'/min and the ADS-B?
From WSJ - behind the paywall

I'll post the headlines


World News
AirAsia Jet Climbed at Rate Beyond Design of Commercial Planes
Plane Climbed at Rate of More Than 8,000 Feet a Minute, Transport Minister Says

By
I-Made Sentana And
Gaurav Raghuvanshi
Updated Jan. 20, 2015 12:15 p.m. ET
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JAKARTA, Indonesia—The AirAsia jet that crashed on Dec. 28 into the Java Sea stalled after apparently climbing far too steeply, Indonesia’s Transport minister said Tuesday, in the first public comments by a high-level official on what likely happened.

“The plane may have climbed in the last minutes at a speed beyond normal limits. After that, it stalled. Why did it stall? I don’t know,” Transport Minister Ignasius Jonan said, elaborating on an statement he made earlier in a hearing in the parliament....
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