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bigfatkitten 17 hours ago

I’d hazard a guess that the speed of impact was much more than 24mph, seeing how the nose of the aircraft was obliterated.

cpncrunch 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

114kts. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/568287

jleyank 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Aircraft, remember, are aluminum balloons with wings. Hit something solid, particularly if filled with incompressible fluid, is a bad day. People f*ck up, people die.