CNN Wolf March 24, 2015 17:07:00
If i'm wrong -- that's about a 2,500 feet a minute rate of descent, which isn't a terribly a lot. we start to do that if we have a crossing restriction out of cruising altitude. so sounds like that's a controlled descent situation. but it was definitely an expedited situation that they realized they had a problem, mechanical problem, something that consumed them enough that they were taken away from the aspect of communication. why that happened, i don't know. that is a little disturbing to me from the standpoint of did their communication equipment break down for the reason that they were sta...
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