On Nov 24, 2:07 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

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


The computer won't let you? What if you need to maneuver abruptly to
avoid a collision?


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..

Amazing. I never would have guessed that you could get a spinal
injury from the decompression itself.


Makes you fart too.

Now that I would have guessed.

Phil