Indonesia's own air force has planes that can climb 8-10 times faster than the quoted 6,000fpm... I have no idea where they get these "spokespeople" and who lets them address the public. The A320 has a recommended climb out on takeoff of 2400fpm, I'd imagine that number is short of the max allowed, but I don't have the max number in front of me. It probably isn't over 6000fpm though...

Once the flight data recorder is completely gone through, they'll be able to do a pretty good recreation of the entire event. If its like the Hudson landing, where they did the animation synched with the voice(s),it should go a long way towards letting the general public understand just what happened.

MV