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Old Jun 26, 2024 | 3:39 am
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not to belittle the problem, but one incident and a clickbait headline do not a crisis make

27000 ft descent in 15 min is ~1500ft/min — that’s a bit faster than normal, but nowhere near the emergency descent rate that the pilots would have used for something like a fire
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