Supposed Latest
"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"
If this is the latest from Indonesia, it's meaningless nonsense and all we know is that it climbed rapidly and stalled. The ambiguity re instantaneous and average climb rate, and climb speed is obvious (GS or CAS). Any one or a combination of zoom climb, windshear, temperature change, updraft, loss of control, is sufficient to explain a higher than normal rate of climb bleeding into a stall. At the moment any figures remain dubious as we don't have the confirmed source of the figures or confirmation of the readings.