Last transmission was 22k feet/second, which is 15k mph.
(I thought ATC's cool as a cucumber 'altitude your discretion' was 'interesting' – presumably a formality they need to offer to clear the aircraft, since clearly no discretion was involved.)
(I thought ATC's cool as a cucumber 'altitude your discretion' was 'interesting' – presumably a formality they need to offer to clear the aircraft, since clearly no discretion was involved.)
Solves one problem, gives you a different problem...
The reply: "Oh you want me to be all fancy and make it a runway, do you? Well, we'll see..."
They got it pretty close to the runway and it all had a far happier ending than this one.