Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Parley Baer

“All it would take is a shoe bomb and the plane would immediately de-pressurize and that would be it while flying at 35000 ft.”

Depressurizing the plane by itself wouldn’t be catastrophic. Oxygen masks would deploy for passengers and crew alike. Air pressure would equalize fairly quickly and then it would just be cold. Unless the cockpit crew were disabled or the flight systems knocked out, the pilots could at least get a mayday out or squawk a distress code.


151 posted on 03/07/2014 7:32:01 PM PST by PLMerite
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 128 | View Replies ]


To: PLMerite

I sure wouldn’t want to be on that flight, at 35,000ft
and 500 mph. Maybe a window blow out might be survivable
but I wouldn’t want to be on the ride down to breathable
air. Zooooow!


169 posted on 03/07/2014 7:40:08 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 151 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson