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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
That makes no sense. The only think keeping you from accelerating towards the earth when flying is the force that the seat puts on your but and the floor puts on your feet. Remove the force from the seat and floor, and you fall at the same rate as any object (neglecting air resistance). Something must happen to pull the plane down, it can't be just falling. If it was just falling (say it stalls or something) you'd just fall with it. You don't fly off the seat of the drop of doom.
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What keeps you standing on the floor of the plane? Gravity right?
If the plane suddenly has a downward acceleration greater than that of gravity your acceleration is still that of gravity and you go up relative to the plane right?
At least that's how I'd think of it.