Originally Posted by fumje (Post # 41)

For reference, a Formula 1 car accelerates at about 2g. That is far more extreme than most people are accustomed to experiencing anywhere.

I agree that there is likely a data fidelity issue here, and the headline-grabbing numbers of 8600fpm drop / strangely-symmetric 8600fpm, 2.7g climb are spurious extrapolations from noisy data. Can a 777 physically do any of that?

It's not that nothing happened — it's that what did happen likely isn't as dramatic as the report is suggesting.


Could you share what they are saying or point to where it is? I am genuinely curious to know more information.

Originally Posted by prestonh (Post # 158)

from https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Documen...%20UAL-Rel.pdf
and https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Documen...phical-Rel.pdf

The entire incident occurred in ~ 15 seconds, ~1425 ft of altitude lost. vertical rates recorded from -1216 to -8576 for the incident period.

https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/a...ort/106734/pdf

IOW, crew had to recover aircraft from flying into the ocean due to their own error.

https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Documen...20Data-Rel.csv