UPS Crew Warned Plane Was Sinking Too Fast Before Crash
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The pilots of a United Parcel Service Inc. freighter killed when the plane crashed in Alabama got a warning they were descending too quickly seconds before impact, according to investigators.
A cockpit alert announced “sink rate, sink rate” 7 seconds before the first sounds of impact are heard on the plane’s recorders, Robert Sumwalt, a member of U.S. National Transportation Safety Board, said yesterday at a briefing in Birmingham.