Mathematicians. If the plane was travelling at 35,000 feet abruptly nose dived at 600 mph plus how fast would it hit the ocean?

Maybe a pilot /terrorist nose dived it & the seconds it would take with everyone holding on for dear life was not ample time for any distress call/text?

Maybe it fell off the radar because of the 600 mph plus descent took a matter of seconds? How fast would would that be?

Edit: Thanks I got the answer I was looking for. Automatic/computer distress call doesn't need human to alert anyone)

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Posted by Zach

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Posted on 3/10/14 at 3:36 pm to sugar71

Maybe a Kennedy was flying it and confused the ocean with the sky.

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Posted by son of arlo

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Posted on 3/10/14 at 4:09 pm to sugar71

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Mathematicians. If the plane was travelling at 35,000 feet abruptly nose dived at 600 mph plus how fast would it hit the ocean?

35k' is roughly 6 nautical miles above sea level. 600mph is roughly 10 nautical miles per minute or a mile every 6 seconds, therefore if an airplane was established in a vertical nosedive, 36 seconds would be fastest time interval for it to get to sea level. In reality, a 777 would break up in a vertical dive because it's accelerating either power on/off. After it broke up, the parts would slow down a bit because of drag.

Nobody's gonna make a radio call in a situation like that. Maybe if a pilot was a narcissist like Obama, he'd use that last 36 seconds to broadcast "I did it my way" in his best Frank Sinatra voice.

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