"khobar" wrote in message
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C J Campbell wrote in message
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|
| What bullets, if any, possess sufficient energy to penetrate an
airliner
| window and would that airliner window spider or would said bullet
simply
| leave a small hole? We already know that an adult PAX will,
apparently,
fit
| through a typical airliner window.
|

We do not really know any such thing. If the passenger is bigger than
the
window he simply cannot be pulled through it any more than he can sucked
up
through a vacuum cleaner hose.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/1973/731103-0.htm

"As a result, the cabin depressurized and one cabin window, which was
struck
by a fragment of the fan assembly, separated from the fuselage. The
passenger who was sitting next to that window was forced through the
opening
and ejected from the aircraft."



http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/Tech/Aviation/Disasters/73-11-03(National).
asp

"According to a witness, the occupant of the seat was partially forced
through the window opening and was temporarily retained in this position
by
his seatbelt. Efforts to pull the passenger back into the airplane by
another passenger were unsuccessful, and the occupant of seat 17H was
subsequently forced entirely through the cabin window."

Paul Nixon

No doubt the pax in ? departed through the hole left by the "window".

"Windows for AC" are essentially like those used in houses, in that they are
"Prefab Units" of a specified size installed/secured in the structure of the
house or A/C.

Just as with a window in a house, there is a vast difference in the size
hole remaining between the glass being broken out, compared to the entire
Prefab Unit being forced from the structure.

The "Prefab Window" departing the A/C structure surely weakened the A/C
structure surrounding the "Departed Window".

In 1 of the above references, it is stated, the pax that lost was sitting in
seat 14L. #'s 1 & 2 engines were damaged by FOD from the #3 engine, plus
assorted damage to wings & their components.

It would be interesting to know if the engine fragment that caused the
"Window Failure" struck the window/window frame structure from inside or
outside.

Most uncontained engine failures result in damage to the A/C in patterns
at/near 90 degrees to the engine components "plane of rotation" for the
failed components.

Anyone know the angle between the "plane of rotation" for the "fan assembly"
of the #3 engine & engines #'s 1 & 2.
Ralph Nesbitt
Professional FD/CFR/ARFF Type