What happens when the pilot gets sucked out of an airplane...

unbelievable.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/This-is-your-captain-screaming/2005/02/04/1107476802601.html

 

Frick'n lucky man. Amazing.

 

Wow

 

So, was this a completely fluky incident or was Mythbusters wrong when they tested this instant decompression myth and found nothing to it?

 

AIRPORT 1976 Baby!

 

2005 article??

anyway, that is insane. reading this stuff makes me not want to get on a plane.

 

Yes, it's an old story. There's a good documentary on it.

 

I'm surprised I've never heard this story. That's pretty incredible.

 

MythBusters got something wrong?@!??! WHAT??

 

Mythbusters is the biggest joke on TV, minus Dancing with the losers, I mean stars, or American Idol, or wait, Americas next top model.

Cool story, all these Southwest stories remind me of the HI flight where the fuselodge ripped open over the ocean, bad day.

 

That was an honest question. You go through life hearing people talk about how it'd suck you right out of the plane; you watch movies demonstrating the same ting when a gun shoots out a window. You watch Mytbusters put "science" to the test and demonstrate that it doesn't happen. Thank God I've never experienced it and hope I never will, but which is legit?

Was this a fluke incident or did Mythbusters get it wrong?

 

Flight attendant was sucked out on an Aloha Airlines plane. Wish I was on the receiving end of that one

 

It was the Southwest incident that I was thinking of as well. I was reading an article that they were discussing how no one was sucked out of that plane b/c there was no one in relative proximity to the hole. Even as close as 5 seats away they inidcated a person would most likely be able to keep themselves seated without restraints. So I couple that with the Mythbusters show, and I question how even something the size of a windshield blowing out would have enough to suck a captain buckled in out of his seat and through the window. It's obviously possible, so now I guess I'm wondering how likely.

 

Search for "Air Crash Investigation - Blow Out Part 1" on YouTube.

 

If I remember correctly, an explanation that I heard kind of compared decompression to a water pipe leak. It has to do with volume and velocity.

If, for example, a water line springs a leak in the middle of a run of pipe, that's pressured from both directions, the velocity of the water going towards the leak will be slower than if the leak is at the end of the run.

A pressurized cabin would work along the same lines. If a cabin bursts a hole in the center the air velocity would only last a couple of seconds without much volume before the cabin was equalized. If it bursts at the end, as in a windshield blowing out, the pressure inside the whole length of the cabin is going toward the hole resulting in more velocity. If the cockpit doors were open this might be an explanation.

This sounds reasonable but I don't know if it's accurate or not.

 

Don't compare pressurized water and compressed air. Not the same dynamic at all.

 

Yes, that's true in most situations. They do however, act very similar in the results of their actions with compressed air doing more damage than pressured water most of the time. Compressed air will find a weak point in a structure more so than pressured water. Dealing with irrigation systems on golf courses has shown me how it works a couple of times.

 

You can do the same thing with electricity as well.

 

No, both water and air will stress a container to the same load. The biggest difference is that a pressurized water container s way safer than a gas container...

Ever seen a Nitrogen cylinder go when its valve is lobed off?