Catastrophic Decompression; Small Place Solo

I believe C J Campbell posted he could find only 1 reference to an explosive
decompression incident involveing commercial pax A/C.

The following, in no particular order are explosive decompression incidents
occuring over the past ~ 35 years in no particular order.

Several incidents involveing early DC-10's due a "Door Design Problem". 1
catastrophic incident involved Turkish Airlines in/over France. Another IRC
involved a NW Airlines A/C near Detroit that made a sucessful landing.

The pressure bulkhead of a 747 blew out in/over Japan with catastrophic
consequences.

A 737 on an inter island flight lost a section of it's top near Hawaii.

While military, another incident of note was the catastrophic crash of a C-5
carrying "Orphans" as it departed Saigon in the early 70's due explosive
decompression when the rear pressure door locks failed.

I apologize for not folowing the post in the thread, but MS OLE decided the
post in ? should disapear by "Crashing" my computer as I was responding.
Ralph Nesbitt
Professional FD/CFR/ARFF Type

"Ralph Nesbitt" wrote in message
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| I believe C J Campbell posted he could find only 1 reference to an
explosive
| decompression incident involveing commercial pax A/C.
|

No, I never made such a post. I have heard of all the incidents you
mentioned.

The incidents you cite generally involve the sudden loss of a door or hatch.
Passengers in the immediate vicinity can get sucked out, although not
through a window. In fact, I question if the loss of a window is enough to
cause an explosive decompression as opposed to a rapid decompression.

Aircraft have been lost or severely damaged by the loss of a door or hatch
as the cover and other debris can strike control surfaces, hydraulic lines
or engines.

In any event, surviving passengers on the subject aircraft did not swell up
and explode, have their eardrums burst, or any other such nonsense.