Couldn't help but chuckle
reading the news about the near miss over the Pacific. Glaring headline:
"Jet dropped 600 feet in 1 minute"
breaking out my handy dandy main frame computing device I have to sympathize with those poor passengers who experienced a descent rate of 10'/sec.
If they fell out of their seat the rate would be 32'/sec squared. Don't ya just love these aviation experts who bring us the news every day!