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Old Mar 24, 2015 | 6:26 am
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Originally Posted by Calchas
This graphic suggests the aircraft was a constant speed through the dive, not slowing: https://fr.flightaware.com/live/flig.../EDDL/tracklog

The flightradar page also suggests the aircraft finally reached 0 feet altitude, when it did not.
FR24 only records horizontal (ground) speed, not the airspeed. The horizontal component of the aircraft's velocity could have remained constant despite increasing airspeed.

The "dive" does seem to be at a pretty constant rate, though.
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