[Servant of the 9]

The flight crew put out the fire with an extinguisher in three seconds and then brought the plane down to 10,000 feet. That reduced the difference between the pressurized cockpit and the thin air outside, said Bill Waldock, aviation safety professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Arizona. The danger at high altitudes is that the windshield could shatter and loose items or people could be sucked out, though that's never happened on a commercial flight.

If the windshield goes, I imagine the ram air effect would keep everything in the plane. The problem would be keeping a crew in the cockpit insteadof the tail.

And yes, a stew was sucked out of a 737 out of Hawaii a few years ago, when the top blew off.

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[Gunrunner2]

Rapid decompression is noisy, but no one gets suckked out of an aircraft due to a broken window. Being sucked out is a Hollywood fantasy, that is all.

Along that point, just to be clear, the stewardess wasn't sucked out, she fell out when the whole middle top half of the jet came off. Horrible.

[Archangelsk]

And yes, a stew was sucked out of a 737 out of Hawaii a few years ago, when the top blew off.

Explosive decompression and structural failure. It was far more than getting sucked out, this poor woman became an "aerodynamic hammer". Also, the investigation concluded that due to the short flights and high cycle time of Aloha Airlines that there was additional wear and tear on the A/C than conventional airlines experience. NTSB report (.pdf format) is here: http://amelia.db.erau.edu/reports/ntsb/aar/AAR89-03.pdf.