Flydubai: What happens when a plane plunges 17,000 feet? | Travel | Al Jazeera
Author: aljazeera.comPublished on: October 4, 2026Country: Qatar
Travel & Tourism

A flight instructor simulated the near-vertical 17,000-foot dive of the Flydubai flight. He states that the aircraft would have exceeded its maximum structural speed, and unsecured objects could have flown around the cabin during the recovery under negative G-forces.
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