Posted on 04/17/2024 7:02:06 AM PDT by logi_cal869
A 33-year-old civilian missile specialist died of decompression sickness, also known as the bends, caused by a high-altitude test flight on a U.S. Air Force jet, a report has revealed.
The specialist, assigned to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA), who had recently had COVID-19, was onboard a C-17 aircraft during a missile-testing mission near Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, on August 21, 2023. The report into the mishap was released by the U.S. Air Force on Friday.
The employee, who has not been named, fell ill shortly after the unpressurized simulated airdrop portion of the mission. One crew member said the missile specialist was "having difficulty even standing up" and "looked like a guy that had been drinking all night."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
But although they mention his recent recovery from the virus, they fail to mention the prior jab mandates for all defense contractors, including the victim.
Personally, I have NEVER heard of a case of the bends absent activity with diving - and certainly not anyone dying of such - and a recent search makes the msm/usaf claims rather dubious.
Of interest:
High-Altitude Joint Pains (Bends): Their Roentgenographic Aspects https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/44.3.259
Most, but not all, hospitals along the Gulf Coast have decompression chambers for treating the bends................
“Roentgenographic Aspects”? Is that the official name of “x-ray”?
Probably had a blood clot break free.
What is the meaning of Roentgenographic?
noun. the production of X-ray images using radiography. Collins English Dictionary.
“ The missile specialist was initially treated for hyperventilation, though the report stated that the failure to recognize he was suffering from the bends, likely did not impact the outcome.”
I have a difficult time believing this statement.
This was in Alaska, but, I’d think a military hospital is equipped.
This is so unlikely it is downright improbable.
Gotta wonder what caused the blood clot. I believe I read he had been jabbed.
Skydiver Luke Aikins Jumps 25000 Feet Into Net With No Parachute
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aPC_h9Vmlxw
Amazing jump-
Sounds like he was in no condition to do any unpressurized flights. More likely to be sudden onset of high altitude sickness, which can include brain swelling, pulmonary edema and pulmonary clots.
Seems odd, astronauts, U-2 and SR-71 pilots wore suits to flush nitrogen from their bodies before high altitude or space flights, so there must be some criteria for preventing the bends.
yeah, but they didn’t have the “safe and effective” vaccine back then.
I dont think the author or the person putting out the report understands the physiology of the bends. While you can get hypoxia (lack of O2 to the brain) at high altitude if you are not on an O2 system, the bends is created by nitrogen under pressure dissolving into the blood and working its way into muscle, then vaporizing into bubbles if the pressure is reduced too quickly, typically from surfacing too quickly while SCUBA diving.
Regarding altitude sickness: Acute mountain sickness is not fatal and therefore not encountered by medical examiner/coroner systems. High altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) and high altitude cerebral edema (HACE) are fatal if not treated promptly.
“Personally, I have NEVER heard of a case of the bends absent activity with diving”
bends originally were discovered due to working inside pressurized coffer dams, like those used to build the main piers for the Brooklyn bridge ... that doesn’t happen anymore however, as working time under compression is limited,m and decompression steps are also used in such circumstances ...
True. We had our annuals with the flight surgeon to remain on flight status. We would have been grounded for "contributing factors of obesity, hypertension, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease,".
I wonder if the defense contractor required any sort of similar flight physical? If he was civil service, it would likely have been a requirement, same as military.
Those suits are required for altitudes above 50,000 feet. I doubt the C-17 went half of that.
Would’ve been a WHOLE LOT WORSE without the jabs. /s
I’m also skeptical. When was under enough pressure to form the small nitrogen bubbles in the first place? Was he an avid SCUBA diver and just completed a deep dive? In that unlikely case, he should have known better not to fly afterward.
My dad, an Air Force fighter pilot, got the bends in the early ‘60s when his F101 Voodoo cockpit had a catastrophic depressurization. They put him in the hyperbaric chamber and he walked out good as new.
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