Phil wrote in
:

On top of last week's A340 incident, now an A330 experienced a sudden
depressurization on a shakedown flight. Among the injuries to
passengers were spinal injuries. Sounds like the pilot may have
abruptly dived the aircraft while some passengers were still standing
in the aisle.


No, you really can;'t abruptly do anything in an Airbus in the flight mode
he would have been in at cruise.


Or would people pass out so quickly that they fell and
injured themselves?

Probably not that either. You're only slumping to the floor like you would
naywhere else.

It doesn't say what the altitude is, but I would
have thought that people would stay conscious long enough to get to a
seat and use the oxygen mask.

Mebbe, mebbe not.


An explosive decompression can do a lot of damage to the body. Sinuses,
ears lungs..


Makes you fart too.


Bertie