It takes about four minutes to get an airliner from maximum altitude to 10,000 feet, where everyone can breathe without supplemental oxygen. The descent rate was actually what limited the Concorde's maximum altitude; it could have flown higher. And now I miss Concorde...
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Anyway, the story of this Southwest flight is pilots, flight crew, and air traffic control and lots of other people doing their job magnificently well. Journalists should honor that by doing theirs.
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You mean to say every commercial flight plunges from the sky?? We need to do something.
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