Phil wrote in
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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?


That's right. It won't let you manuever more thna a given acceleration for
the flight mode you are in,particulaly at high alt due to mahc manuevering
considerations. Can't give you numbers because I'm not flying one at the
moment.


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.


Didn't know about that one either. Could be just misreported or it may be
so. We get training in the physiological aspects of a blowout and some are
pretty nasty (an aneurism on the brain in several cases) but this is a new
one on me. It's not really something we need be to concerned about, it'll
either happen or it won't. Hopefully won't..




Makes you fart too.

Now that I would have guessed.

Phil