Punctured pressure cabin.

FWIW, tomorrow (Friday) night on The Discovery Channel's "Myth Busters"
program, one of their projects is rapid decomp of an airliner.

FWIW, tomorrow (Friday) night on The Discovery Channel's "Myth Busters"
program, one of their projects is rapid decomp of an airliner.

Will somebody summarize the findings here, for the sake of us pathetic
losers with antennas in the attic?

all the best -- Dan Ford
email:

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From: Cub Driver
Date: 1/1/2004 2:00 PM Central Standard Time
Message-id:

FWIW, tomorrow (Friday) night on The Discovery Channel's "Myth Busters"
program, one of their projects is rapid decomp of an airliner.

Will somebody summarize the findings here, for the sake of us pathetic
losers with antennas in the attic?

all the best -- Dan Ford
email:


The urban myth in question was that a passenger heard a funny noise coming from
the window. He summoned a stewardess who leaned forward to listen and was blown
through the window when it blew. Supposedly she exited the window like
"toothpaste from a tube."

The show has experts, altitude chambers etc all of which proved it could never
happen.

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

"B2431" wrote in message
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From: Cub Driver
Date: 1/1/2004 2:00 PM Central Standard Time
Message-id:

FWIW, tomorrow (Friday) night on The Discovery Channel's "Myth Busters"
program, one of their projects is rapid decomp of an airliner.

Will somebody summarize the findings here, for the sake of us pathetic
losers with antennas in the attic?

all the best -- Dan Ford
email:


The urban myth in question was that a passenger heard a funny noise coming
from
the window. He summoned a stewardess who leaned forward to listen and was
blown
through the window when it blew. Supposedly she exited the window like
"toothpaste from a tube."

The show has experts, altitude chambers etc all of which proved it could
never
happen.

I would take the TAM F-28 accident as a departure from that "could not
happen". Unlikely, yes; impossible, no, as we have already seen. I keep
racking my head for the info regarding an incident back in the 80's where a
USAF C-130 (or maybe EC-130) was fired upon by a Columbian or Venezuelan
fighter (mistaken identity case), and IIRC a crewmember of the Herky Bird
was ejected from the aircraft...?

Brooks


Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired

On 01 Jan 2004 22:19:37 GMT, B2431 wrote:
From: Cub Driver
Date: 1/1/2004 2:00 PM Central Standard Time
Message-id:

FWIW, tomorrow (Friday) night on The Discovery Channel's "Myth Busters"
program, one of their projects is rapid decomp of an airliner.

Will somebody summarize the findings here, for the sake of us pathetic
losers with antennas in the attic?

all the best -- Dan Ford
email:

The urban myth in question was that a passenger heard a funny noise coming from
the window. He summoned a stewardess who leaned forward to listen and was blown
through the window when it blew. Supposedly she exited the window like
"toothpaste from a tube."

The show has experts, altitude chambers etc all of which proved it could never
happen.

Something like that did happen, though, on 3 November 1973.

A National Airlines DC-10 (flight 27, between Houston and Las
Vegas) was cruising at 39,000 feet over New Mexico when the number
3 engine's fan assembly disintegrated. Fan blades penetrated the
fuselage and one of the cabin windows, and a passenger seated in
seat 17H was forced out through the missing window. The victim's
seatbelt was fastened, and briefly prevented him from going
completely out the window. Another passenger tried to pull
him back in, but was unsuccessful.

After an emergency descent, the DC-10 landed safely at Albuquerque.
An extensive ground search for the passenger's body was conducted,
but his remains were never found.

As far as I know, this is the only case of a person being blown
(sucked, pulled, whatever) completely through a missing aircraft
window during a rapid decompression.


ljd

In article ,
Laurence Doering wrote:

Something like that did happen, though, on 3 November 1973.

A National Airlines DC-10 (flight 27, between Houston and Las
Vegas) was cruising at 39,000 feet over New Mexico when the number
3 engine's fan assembly disintegrated. Fan blades penetrated the
fuselage and one of the cabin windows, and a passenger seated in
seat 17H was forced out through the missing window. The victim's
seatbelt was fastened, and briefly prevented him from going
completely out the window. Another passenger tried to pull
him back in, but was unsuccessful.

After an emergency descent, the DC-10 landed safely at Albuquerque.
An extensive ground search for the passenger's body was conducted,
but his remains were never found.

As far as I know, this is the only case of a person being blown
(sucked, pulled, whatever) completely through a missing aircraft
window during a rapid decompression.

In 1990, a British Airways pilot almost got sucked out of his plane at
17,000 feet when a piece of the windshield fell off. He was wearing his
seatbelt, but got pulled under it. A flight steward held on to him
until another steward strapped into the seat and helped hold on. The
co-pilot landed the plane, and the pilot survived with some broken bones
and a case of frostbite.

And, one would assume, a need for clean underwear.

--
cirby at cfl.rr.com

Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations.
Slam on brakes accordingly.

In message , Chad Irby
writes
In article ,
Laurence Doering wrote:

Something like that did happen, though, on 3 November 1973.

A National Airlines DC-10 (flight 27, between Houston and Las
Vegas) was cruising at 39,000 feet over New Mexico when the number
3 engine's fan assembly disintegrated. Fan blades penetrated the
fuselage and one of the cabin windows, and a passenger seated in
seat 17H was forced out through the missing window. The victim's
seatbelt was fastened, and briefly prevented him from going
completely out the window. Another passenger tried to pull
him back in, but was unsuccessful.

After an emergency descent, the DC-10 landed safely at Albuquerque.
An extensive ground search for the passenger's body was conducted,
but his remains were never found.

As far as I know, this is the only case of a person being blown
(sucked, pulled, whatever) completely through a missing aircraft
window during a rapid decompression.

In 1990, a British Airways pilot almost got sucked out of his plane at
17,000 feet when a piece of the windshield fell off. He was wearing his
seatbelt, but got pulled under it. A flight steward held on to him
until another steward strapped into the seat and helped hold on. The
co-pilot landed the plane, and the pilot survived with some broken bones
and a case of frostbite.

And, one would assume, a need for clean underwear.

There was also the case of the Yugoslav air stewardess who left the
plane at about 30k and survived.

Mike
--
M.J.Powell

In article ,
"M. J. Powell" wrote:

There was also the case of the Yugoslav air stewardess who left the
plane at about 30k and survived.

It wasn't so much a case of her leaving the plane as the plane leaving
her, since she was in the tail of the plane when a bomb went off and
blew the tail off.

--
cirby at cfl.rr.com

Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations.
Slam on brakes accordingly.