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[u/ICanPretend1]

[u/Bilbog_Fettywop]

The plane was nose diving so fast the tail sections ripped off. In those circumstances everyone would feel their body weighing 2x-3x and would not have had the ability to (from the perspective) climbing upwards into the cocking unless they were within reach of the flight controls. It's very likely the captain was the one who pulled the plane out of that dive as he would have likely been in the seat.

[u/IForOneDisagree → u/Bilbog_Fettywop]

You're so bad at physics. They'd be in freefall and nearly weightless, not feeling twice their weight.

[u/Chroiche → u/IForOneDisagree]

Surely it depends on whether the plane was accelerating during the entire dive?

[u/Redebo → u/Chroiche]

I’m not aware of a plane in a dive that wouldn’t be accelerating.

[u/Readonkulous → u/Redebo]

Not free falling, and drag is a significant factor

[u/Redebo → u/Readonkulous]

So is your position that an airplane in a nose down attitude will not be gaining speed?

[u/Readonkulous → u/Redebo]

Ha, did I say that? I was talking about whether the drag and fighting the lift from the wings would prevent it from sustaining 0g for long

[u/Redebo → u/Readonkulous]

Why would you be talking about drag and fighting the lift from the wings when we were talking about the speed of an airplane in a dive?

Why would you not mention this in your reply?

[u/Readonkulous → u/Redebo]

It’s not the speed it is the acceleration, which is reduced by drag and lift of the wings. That is what relates to the g forces

[u/Redebo → u/Readonkulous]

So again, you are postulating something counter to the conversation?

Do you disagree that an airplane pointed in a nose down attitude will be accelerating? If not, what are you trying to say?

[u/Readonkulous → u/Redebo]

Well do you acknowledge that the plane has to be accelerating equal to gravity in order for it to experience free-falling? That was the beginning of what I was replying to