Airplane Nose Dives By Itself / Qantas Flight 72
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Your Body Weight Is One G of Gravity
Passengers hit the ceiling so violently that some of the panels cracked and have holes in them. The crew was going through their e kam messages, new caution messages kept being placed at the top of the list. At 12 forty five, while the crew was responding to the ecam messages, the aircraft pitched down a second time,. reaching a pitch angle of three point five degrees nose down. A minute later, the captain disconnected the auto thrust to minimize any potential problems associated with erroneous air control units affecting the plane's engines. It took two seconds for the aircraft to begin to respond after it descended 400 feet over 15 seconds.
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