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What could these possibly incorrectly translated numbers for aircraft speed have been?

Yesterday I was watching a show about Air Crash Investigation, the Air France flight 447 case involving an Airbus A330-200.

I was watching it with Spanish voice dubbing and the weird part is that the narrator said the plane...

  • reached a final speed of 13,000 km/h
  • started falling at 7,000 km/h
  • crashed at 200 km/h

The only speed value that makes sense to me is the last one: 200 km/h.

My guess is that something was missed in translation. What is usually the speed measure for aircraft in the US?

I also thought about the 7,000 figure, and perhaps instead of speed in km/h it meant altitude in feet?