Corrected entry: Air Force One explodes quite a while after the 13 people have been sucked out near the tail section of the plane. During the delayed (15+ seconds) explosion, you can see lots of debris falling with smoke trails. The problem: During the rescue, as Iron Man is catching the free-falling victims, you can see many debris trails that have already fallen below past the victims. This defies Newton's law of gravity regarding items, no matter their weight or size, will all fall at the same speed, (even when you factor wind resistance). Even with arms and legs extended, all of those people would not have slowed down enough to allow all that debris to pass, especially with the head start they had.
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Correction: You are forgetting to take into account that the plane EXPLODED. This would have pushed pieces of debris in all directions at many hundreds of miles an hour. Even considering air resistance, explosive force would mean the debris was travelling far faster than free-falling people (terminal velocity being around 120mph) and could easily have overtaken them.