only frame that matters i spose
Oi, you can't park that there mate
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and everyone was wondering how the jet on 9/11 disappeared into the ground
Like those morons who thought the Pentagon didn't get hit because there wasn't an airplane shaped hole in building like some kind of looney-tunes gag?
Explain to me how that plane was traveling at Mach 39.1 ?
It wasn’t. IIRC, it was descending at 30,000 feet per minute at its peak and was maybe coming close to Mach 1 at impact.
I also understand there’s some deeply NSFL audio floating around, but I haven’t listened and don’t intend to.
The audio is a bit rough, especially if you haven't heard any emergency calls or ATC traffic before but not really any more distressing than watching a loaded plane slam into the ground. Which doesn't even have a NSFW tag
I listened to the audio. Always heartbreaking to hear people's distressing last words as they realize they are about to die.
Always hoped my last words were something along the lines of "get fuckd carnt"
Hers was something "we've run out of time". Poetic
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People are saying the equipment only registers a maximum of 32,000 feet per minute, but the aircraft was probably traveling closer to 60,000 feet per minute on impact, at basically terminal velocity for that aircraft.
I don't know anything though, just parroting comments from YouTube.
fixed, thanks!
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Its a small mistake but still: its 30.000 feet per minute, not second
30.000 feet per second is about 10km/sec which is closer to speeds of meteors crashing into the earth. At those speeds, that plane crash would have had enough energy to likely wiped out the entirety of Miami.
at that speed, the plane would have been completely vaporized just from the atmospheric friction alone.
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Well, I can say that watching 9/11 live on TV desensitized me to this.
Ill be honest though, that is not the angle I would have expected the plane to crash at.
This video is oddly less graphic. It's so fast and absurd that the horror doesn't really come with it.
It looks like missile footage, except with a slow explosive with fire rather than a fast explosive with shockwave.
This particular video looks like it destroys the white car, but other angles of the aftermath show that the white car was a bit behind the explosion and that driver was OK but understandably shaken up.
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NGL. I've seen other ways to die. Instant obliteration isn't a bad way to go. Beats drowning by a long shot.
Idk. The pilot sounded like she knew and I can't get that out of my head. Adrenaline kicking in, slowing everything down, but knowing she had no more control and there was only one outcome.
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The reason it's at such a high pitch is that it experienced heavy icing, which killed the wings ability to generate lift. Once it started falling, it oriented itself in the direction with the least drag, forward.
They went from tolerable light icing to falling out of the sky in less than 3 minutes. Ice is very scary.
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Don’t listen to the audio. You can’t unhear it.
her last, cutoff words have been haunting me for at least an hour. and here I was thinking I was desensitized for years.
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I didn't know it existed. Now you have basically forced my hand, I've got to listen to it now. I am morbidly curious
^ ^ ^ ^ Take this advice! I can still hear the sounds of a terrorist decapitation video I watched at least 20 years ago.
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Honestly, i felt the audio wasn't as bad as so many people are claiming it to be. Like yes its bad, but after seeing watching so much of palestine footage, its.... not that bad. They suffered for like 30 seconds, and then peace.
If you listen to hind rajab's audio, that thing is super devastating. Like imagine being 5 with your parents dead in the car with you, trying to explain to paramedics, imagine what those paramedics must have felt in that moment. All the agony, all the struggle. Like what thoughts did hind have while waiting for paramedics to arrive?
I think the reason this flight audio feels so scary to western audience is because, so many people have flown, and "it could be any of us", whereas hind rajab and other palestinians live in a "war torn" country. Like it happens all the time over there anyways.
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It was 20,000 feet per minute
Where on earth did you get those numbers?
If it was travelling at a velocity of 30,000 feet per second it would have been vaporized by atmospheric heating. That's substantially faster than asteroids collide at. That works out app 20,454 mph which is considerably faster than a Apollo rocket.
I saw that image on a news article and just assumed it was some shit tier stock image.
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Really got my hopes up when I saw it was a learjet taken off from Texas, but alas
This is why I like that we can edit titles.
Where are the wings? Was it going so fast they broke off??
The wings are there, just not clear in this screenshot. The horizontal stabilizers/elevators, however, are not present anymore. If the NTSB finds those I’m guessing that will be very useful for the investigation. Sounds like the plane was trying to get out of an icing situation they thought was manageable shortly before the crash.
I made the mistake of listening to the audio. They thought the clear icing was manageable and weren't worried about it, but had some moderate turbulence they weren't happy about, then entered an area where they were catching some precipitation. I suspect that the precipitation in what was already an ice situation is what very rapidly caused a loss of control. The time interval between "We're looking for a smoother ride ahead" and "Mayday Mayday We are descending at 10,000 feet per minute" was very brief.
These kinds of recordings typically have periods of silence cut. The timing is very misleading.
This one included no obvious cuts of silence and did have unrelated transmissions included, and included the radar tracking of the aircraft along with an overlay of weather radar. There was no indication of any editing for brevity, and the first radio call of genuine distress was "We are descending at 10,000 feet per minute" and not something that suggested a more gradual degradation of flight condition outside the mention of precipitation.
It really does appear that the situation went from "Uncomfortable but manageable" to "Already a disaster and getting rapidly worse" in a matter of seconds.
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it was 22,000 ft/minute which is around 367ft/second. at 22,000ft high they traveled 250mph until they crashed.
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