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Flydubai: What happens when a plane plunges 17,000 feet?

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A flight instructor recreates the Flydubai jet’s near-vertical 17,000 foot dive in a simulator. He says the plane would have exceeded its maximum structural speed, and that anything unsecured would have flown all over the cabin during the recovery’s negative G-forces.

Read original at Al Jazeera English

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