Catastophic depressurization in a commercial airliner

Hi

There was an incident involving an R.C.A.F. Station Namao-based S.A.C.
KC-135 Stratotanker back in 1961. (S.A.C. maintained a standing tanker
detachment at R.C.A.F. Station Namao, located just north of the city of
Edmonton, Alberta.

The aircraft had been involved in refueling a B-52 north of R.C.A.F.
Station Namao, when one of the windows blew out at altitude and
partially sucked one of the crew out of the aircraft. Apparently the
resulting trauma to his body allowed all the blood to be sucked out. I
talked to an old boomer who recalled the incident and said that when the
plane landed at Namao, there was a stream of frozen blood running along
the side of the fuselage.

Cheers...Chris