"Ash Wyllie" wrote in message ...
The point
of the show was to figure out how the man survived the hours at 30K
ft. They couldn't do it.

You can survive 30kft without oxygen, people have climbed Everest without O2
after all. Mind you they were all brain damaged afterwards. It's the
temperature that might be more of a problem.

Oops. Just did a Google search and it turns out it was 35K ft. You
can survive 30K ft. without oxygen if you have spent weeks acclimating
yourself at high levels. The person I'm talking about was a Cuban
airplane mechanic. Four hours at 35K ft is pretty impressive. What
got me was the temp. Somewhere around -50F and the man had only a
light windbreaker. In Montreal, he was able to climb out of the wheel
well by himself.

Links :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2560213.stm
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/...0021210/UCUBAN

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)