Some initial suspicions were that the plane had flown too fast, possibly into turbulence, causing it to break up.
A young witch, hardly more than a child, is flying too fast on her broom, then: crash!
But flying too fast or too slow could also disrupt the flow of air over the wing, causing the plane to lose lift and fall.
This means that if the Flight 447 pilots could not read the measurement correctly, the plane could have been flying too slowly or flying too fast, with deadly results.
Unable to calculate speed because monitors were showing an impossible drop from 275 knots to 60 knots, one of the pilots appeared to make a fatal assumption that the plane was flying too fast and was in danger of breaching "coffin corner": the narrow aerodynamic envelope that keeps a plane flying at cruise altitude.
The pit seemed 10 miles deep, 20 miles, stretching down and down, his body falling until he realized his falling was actually rising, a sensation of flying too fast as his inner ear struggled to keep up with the reality of his body's movement".
It flies too fast to be hand-launched, so it ejects out of a thin tube with collapsible legs that a soldier can set up in an instant.
"The strangest part is that they are flying too fast to see with the naked eye".
When he sought to illustrate a large flock of ducks, but realized that the birds were flying too fast for his camera to record, he photographed the scene without the waterfowl and then scratched dozens of ducks into the negative.
