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What is the falling speed (error conversion)?

Yesterday I was watching a show about Air Crash Investigation.
Case France Flight 447
Type of aircraft: Airbus A330-200

I watch it with spanish voice dub.

The weird part is voice narrator say PLANE:

  • Reach final speed of 13000 kmh
  • Plane start falling at 7000 kmh
  • Crash at 200 kmh

The only speed value making sense is the last one 200 kmh.

So my guess is something was missed in translation.

What is usually the speed measure in US?

The other value I can think about was 7000, and instead of speed at kmh mean altitude in feets.