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Official: Body falls from Air France jet as it approaches for landing in Niger
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Posted on 07/25/2013 2:06:55 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: dfwgator
Yes, I remember the Payne Stewart incident. Didn’t have emergency oxygen or, if they did, lost consciousness before the realized anything was wrong.
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posted on
07/25/2013 2:47:54 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/25/2013 2:47:58 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
To: Red Badger
Temperature drop is generally considered to be 3.5 degrees per 1000 feet.
90F - (39 x 3.5) = -46.5. Cold enough, but survivable. I have camped out at -33. If you have the right equipment, which isn’t very likely for some random African.
I suspect an even bigger issue is the lack of air pressure and oxygen at that altitude. The bends would be very likely to get you, also.
To: Izzy Dunne
I don’t get those anymore - I guess spam filters are getting too good.
RIP, ye Nigerian princes.
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posted on
07/25/2013 2:49:25 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: dfwgator
Now shrunk to lower wattage
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posted on
07/25/2013 2:49:40 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
To: Venturer
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posted on
07/25/2013 2:50:51 PM PDT
by
2CAVTrooper
(Slaving away so obama supporting deadbeats can play)
To: Sherman Logan
Sherman, next time read all the posts before replying.
Sorry about that.
To: Red Badger
It’s the homeland of *something*...
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posted on
07/25/2013 2:51:31 PM PDT
by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
To: Brooklyn Attitude
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posted on
07/25/2013 2:55:18 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Sherman Logan
The last Time I flew Air France, they had a display in the cabin that indicated that the outside temp was -100°. But that was at night in the middle of winter over the Atlantic Ocean............
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posted on
07/25/2013 2:55:58 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: a6intruder
Averages? Where’s that dang graph of the drunk “averaging” walking between the two lanes of traffic...
To: Defiant
“Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou
When you name a city ooga doo goo, you are just asking for people to make fun of you.”
I think his last words were: “Bad Ju Ju Bawanna”
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posted on
07/25/2013 2:58:23 PM PDT
by
Batman11
(Obama is not American.. he has no clue what it is to be American.)
To: Red Badger
I’ve heard about things like this happening in the other direction: frozen, lifeless Africans discovered in the wheel base on landing in Europe; but never this. Very odd.
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posted on
07/25/2013 2:59:31 PM PDT
by
OldNewYork
(Biden '13. Impeach now.)
To: af_vet_rr
“Reinhold Messner might be able to survive that high without supplemental oxygen and the appropriate acclimation and clothing, but the person we are talking about here probably wasn’t even conscious, either from the drop in pressure, or the temperature. Most likely dead very quickly”.
IIRC there have been several people who stowed away like this and lived. Maybe they were shorter flights.
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posted on
07/25/2013 3:02:28 PM PDT
by
Brooklyn Attitude
(Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
To: Sherman Logan
And then there’s Mt. Washington. Just shy of 6300 FEET, you could be roasting at the base, and be below freezing at the summit in the middle of the Summer.
To: Red Badger
Shamanistic flying is all fun and games until you encounter something bigger in the same airspace.
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posted on
07/25/2013 3:04:18 PM PDT
by
Sirius Lee
(All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
To: Calvin Locke
I suspect 3.5 degrees per 1000 feet is an average.
To: Red Badger
Labo said the plane was coming from Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou .... Hey, that's the name of the guy who's putting all the money in my bank account.
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posted on
07/25/2013 3:08:45 PM PDT
by
Mr Ramsbotham
(Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
To: luvbach1
Yea, but that's the only one I've ever seen about "anal dwelling rebel Martians".
And the poor guy's uterus....
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posted on
07/25/2013 3:13:00 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Mr Ramsbotham
That’s The Honorable Mr. Ouagadougou .........
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posted on
07/25/2013 3:16:09 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
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