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Man Survived 22,000-Foot Fall Out of Bomber
Albuquerque Journal
| 2/3/04
| Paul Logan
Posted on 02/03/2004 8:54:26 PM PST by woofie
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To: Johnny Gage
Amazing. Simply amazing.
To: SamAdams76
I know of four cases like this counting this one. The other was a British guy and there were two different Navy pilots that ejected over water in the 60's both of them had ruptured spleens. One had a cigarette roll in his chute that slowed him some the other a total malfunction.
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posted on
02/04/2004 9:48:19 AM PST
by
U S Army EOD
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To: COEXERJ145
I remember that one also plus there was another German girl whose airplane disintergrated in the air and she rode her seat down into the Brazilian rain forest. She was able to walk out to get help.
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posted on
02/04/2004 9:50:06 AM PST
by
U S Army EOD
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To: SamAdams76
This guy doesn't win the Guinness record, though. It officially goes to the stewardess who was sucked out at 35,000 feet and landed on the downslope of a snow covered hill. Everybody else on that plane died.
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posted on
02/04/2004 9:52:36 AM PST
by
Flightdeck
(Death is only a horizon)
To: stand watie
Do you think it would be possible to get him back in a B17?
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posted on
02/04/2004 9:56:04 AM PST
by
U S Army EOD
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To: All
I once fell off a barstool and immediately passed out.
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posted on
02/04/2004 9:57:24 AM PST
by
U S Army EOD
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To: SamAdams76
A glass skylight "breaking" his fall? C'mon. I am sure it was more than a glass skylight breaking the fall. My guess would be Devine intervention.
To: U S Army EOD
don't know. he's a little ancient for being a bombardier now i think!
free dixie,sw
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posted on
02/04/2004 10:03:55 AM PST
by
stand watie
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
To: woofie
I thought the gunners could not get out of the ball turrents until the mission was over. The stories about them say that gunners were crushed when planes had to belly land because of an inability to get out.
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posted on
02/04/2004 10:05:24 AM PST
by
justshutupandtakeit
(America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
To: U S Army EOD
fyi, my dad was a B17 guy.
he said it was NOT uncommon for guys to fall out the bomb bay doors-they would "jump up & down" on "stuck" bombs, until they were freed from the racks. sometimes the bombardier fell out too!
free dixie,sw
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posted on
02/04/2004 10:07:49 AM PST
by
stand watie
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
To: woofie
I recall that there was one person (a woman) who jumped from the WTC on 9/11. She was still alive when rescuers found her and was able to ask for family members. However her injuries were severe and she did not live much longer.
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posted on
02/04/2004 10:11:12 AM PST
by
kidd
To: stand watie
As in Dr. Strangelove.
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posted on
02/04/2004 10:11:25 AM PST
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U S Army EOD
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To: U S Army EOD
fyi, my dad said the fellow who fell out twice said,
"the preacher didn't want to hear what i said EITHER time!"
free dixie,sw
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posted on
02/04/2004 10:11:25 AM PST
by
stand watie
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
To: U S Army EOD
YEP!
usually with the same results!
free dixie,sw
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posted on
02/04/2004 10:12:02 AM PST
by
stand watie
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. -T. Jefferson)
To: U S Army EOD
I once fell off a barstool and immediately passed out. LMAO
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posted on
02/04/2004 10:16:28 AM PST
by
MassExodus
(The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled my tagline Un-Constitutional)
To: U S Army EOD
LOL
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posted on
02/04/2004 10:17:30 AM PST
by
woofie
To: justshutupandtakeit
You could get in and out of a ball turret in flight...The guns had to be pointed straight down so that the hatch was inside the plane...If the turret got jammed so it could not rotate the gunner was trapped...If the Fort had to belly land the gunner was toast.......
.....Westy....
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posted on
02/04/2004 12:16:33 PM PST
by
westmex
To: Travis McGee
Actually, about 400 feet or higher.
To: westmex
Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps that was brought out in the story I saw but given the fog in my head I didn't get it straight. Then again I don't know if the ball turrents were the same on all the types of planes.
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posted on
02/04/2004 1:16:14 PM PST
by
justshutupandtakeit
(America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
To: Old Professer
Actually, about 400 feet or higher. There was a videotape on TV the other night of a skydiver who forgot to open his chute and lived to tell about it. I don't know what height beginners jump from, but he looked like he had reached terminal velocity. Same survivor story: hit some pine trees, couple of broken bones, etc. While pine trees work well, I imagine oak would be like hitting the desert floor.
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