Punctured pressure cabin.

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