Spartan Posted March 24, 2015 Report Posted March 24, 2015 Helicopter crews found the airliner in pieces, none of them bigger than a small car, and human remains strewn for several hundred meters, according to Gilbert Sauvan, a high-level official in the Alpes de Haute Provence region who is being briefed on the operation.
Spartan Posted March 24, 2015 Author Report Posted March 24, 2015 Plane dropped 27,000 feet in 8 minutes, tracker shows According to an online flight tracker that records altitude, the plane was at 38,000 feet, and eight minutes later had dropped to 11,400 feet -- a drop of nearly 27,000 feet. The plane's speed dropped during the descent, from 551 mph to 480, according to the tracking data. This could indicate that there was not a stall, but that the pilot was still controlling the plane to some extent, Schiavo said.
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