Oh! the humanity new media is at it again

[spud]

Couldn't help but chuckle  reading the news about the near miss over the Pacific. Glaring headline:
"Jet dropped 600 feet in 1 minute"
breaking out my handy dandy main frame computing device I have to sympathize with those poor passengers who experienced a descent rate of 10'/sec. :sleeping: If they fell out of their seat the rate would be 32'/sec squared. Don't ya just love these aviation experts who bring us the news every day!

[pivo11]

Ha!  I can still run that fast! 

[archangel1]

This appears to come from the same folks who continue to insist It's going to be very cold tonight at -5° C. Um, excuse me, but that's still 23° F, barely below freezing. Talk to me again when we start to hit -5 F (on the down side of -20° C), about 37° below freezing. Big difference. 

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600 fpm. Man, the C185 fully loaded on floats would climb faster than that. Jeeez