Originally Posted by
Waddo Plumber
Living abroad, I am only following the story via this thread and The Times. In the latter, it says the co-pilot was pinned to the ceiling for 29 seconds. So, he would have been experiencing less than -1 G, let's say -1.2, or about 38 feet per second squared. Assuming level flight to start, the vertical distance travelled ( dredging up A level Physics from 50 years ago, = 1/2a*t^2 or 19*841 which is about a 16000 foot descent. It also says it dropped more than 4000 feet in seconds.
I assume that the FDR gave a complete readout of the descent profile, is that in the public domain?