CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield March 24, 2015 16:16:00
Descent. but as les just said, that's not so precipitous. >> right. and i checked the descent rates for this aircraft, looked at the charts and the tables and this is one that's allowed. now, at this altitude, though, the recommended descent rate is less than that. but it's not the kind of a descent rate that would cause pieces of the plane to come apart. it wasn't an uncontrolled descent rate and the plane wasn't dropping from 38,000 feet at terminal velocity. but this is higher than what's recommended for the airbus at that altitude but certainly not something where the pilots were causing d...
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