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To: batenkaitos
Yeah, but at least people don't get sucked out of the window if a bullet pierces a Greyhound window.

Apparently you missed the "Mythbusters" episode where the show's hosts attempted to induce explosive decompression with gunfire by pressurizing an airplane so that the difference between air pressures was the same as an airplane at altitude and firing various weapons through both windows and the fuselage (firearms failed to do so; the holes produced were too small).

71 posted on 01/15/2005 5:27:37 AM PST by steveegg (The secret goal of lieberals - to ensure that no future generation can possibly equal theirs.)
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To: steveegg

I was joking about getting sucked out. But how awesome was that tree cannon they had on Mythbusters?


82 posted on 01/15/2005 5:43:40 AM PST by batenkaitos
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To: steveegg
As an Aloha Airlines jet descended for landing on Maui, Hawaii, passenger Matt Austin noticed the luggage racks rattling and swaying when the thrust reversers came on.

It didn't startle him. He had seen that happen before on other older Aloha jets. But Austin remembered the name painted across the plane's exterior: Queen Lili'uokalani. It was a 19-year-old Boeing 737.

A week later--on April 28, 1988--the same jet's roof ripped open 24,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean, killing one flight attendant and seriously injuring seven passengers and a crew member. Austin counted himself lucky....

Wrong place...wrong time!

99 posted on 01/15/2005 6:07:26 AM PST by pageonetoo (I could name them, but you'll spot their posts soon enough.)
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