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Old Apr 14, 2015 | 4:39 pm
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clarkm
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UA894 5,000+ fpm descent? [14 Apr 2015]
I just got off of UA894 (A319) from EWR to DEN. It was a bumpy ride most of the way, and I surprised and how quickly we descended from cruise. I pulled up Flight Aware and saw that we spent a couple minutes at over 5,000 fpm.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/.../KDEN/tracklog

Any idea what could've caused this? It was pretty jarring. Was it just turbulence avoidance?
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