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Originally Posted by Ducay
6 minutes is a long time. Their descent profile was very close to normal descent rates for that airframe, so that in itself isn't considered outside the norm. What precipitated that descent is the real question.
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thanks for this. I wasn't pointing out to a crash decent, I honestly don't know what the rates are for an airliner. in terms of decent. I guess I always thought that it was slower then that because it always seems that descents are a lot slower then that when I fly.
So I guess my next question is what would cause a commercial pilot to go looking for a flat landing zone?
If this is a normal descent then was this a non emergency that became an emergency?