• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    the ground is an irrational actor

    The math works out, after the plane goes to zero height, it will just continue to negative heights. Nothing to worry about, the plane will recover at some point.

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      Think about it this way, the moment before the crash the plane needs wings because it is flying through the air, once it passes through the ground though if the wings fall off and there is some other damage to the fuselage we are going to be ok because the plane doesn’t need those for flying through the ground.

      Look right now I just made a stock trade to buy some stocks in airplane wing manufacturers! I am going to get rich repairing this plane.

      plane explodes into fireball after hitting the ground at a near vertical angle

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      Technically there are places on earth that are below sea level, so if that’s your measure for altitude you could have negative altitude and still be flying. But I don’t think you could ever have negative AGL.