United Airlines 777 Nearly Crashes Departing Hawaii (Dec 18 2022, just being reported now )

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Caught That Too

One of those numbers has to be incorrect, or at least incompletely reported
You can't start at 2,200', drop 6,400 feet and not hit the water.
The plane wasn't falling straight down, maybe the 6,450 feet/minute was airspeed, with a significant fraction of that being down.
But, that doesn't seem right either, because that's only 108 feet per second which is only about 74mph. Way too slow.
Either way, scary.
I was coming back from Italy once and we fell from around 40,000 feet to about 38,500 is 6 to 8 seconds. That was pretty scary, but nothing like this.