3 ms·

Well, it does say they reached a descent rate of 4,200 ft/min (72 ft/second), which is pretty rapid.

• shawabawa3 8y ago
  you only feel acceleration not speed though - depends how quickly it accelerated to 22m/second - presumably linearly through the 18 seconds? which means 1.2m/s^2, or about 0.12G - not that extreme really
  • yashap 8y ago
    Yeah, it’s certainly not a freefall, but still scary. They pulled out of the descent at 928 feet, descending 72 feet per second. Assuming they were still accelerating, they were probably less than 10 seconds from the ground. Good thing the pilot reacted to the alarms immediately! Of course, we don’t know if there were other systems to prevent this. But if there weren’t, and it was truly a situation of “if the pilot reacts 10 seconds slower here, everyone dies”, then they should likely put more sanity checks into the autopilot system.