When air france flight 447 was descending into the ocean at 10,912 feet per minute were the passangers in a?

-zero or low gravity situation since this could of confused the passengers and pilots even more making it harder to stop the crash.



a quick descent can cause zero or low gravity



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_鈥?/a>No descent at a constant rate will produce zero-G sensations. You have to accelerate to get zero G.



To get actual continuous zero G in a fall from 35,000 feet, you'd have to accelerate to 90,000 fpm by the time you hit the water, and you'd hit in 47 seconds, not three minutes.If the plane is descending at a steady speed, everything feels normal, whether the rate of descent is 0ft/min or 10,000ft/min. In a storm over the ocean in the pitch black of night, there is no way of telling you are dropping if the flight instruments fail.
The passengers would have been descending at the same speed as that of the aircraft and only known on impact with the water and by then its all over.
No, read how the vomit comet uses the top of an arc for zero Gs.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomit_Comet



They may have been pinned to their seatbelts.
Don't forget drag on the fall that slows down the acceleration of the aircraft as it's faster. That would also reveal some sort of gravitational effect