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Effects Of Explosive Cabin Decompression On Crew
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This shows a passenger can be ejected by explosive decompression, that is why the B-29 had a cage to keep crew from being shot out is explosive decompression occurs. • • It is pretty much a myth that a small handgun can cause explosive decompression. Under normal conditions most commercial and military aircraft have enough margin of error (extra strength), that in most cases a small caliber gun is just going to make a small hole and make no noticeable cabin pressure lose. • • The occupant is not sucked out. The higher relative pressure inside the cabin pushes the passenger out. Suck is not a real technical term in physics. You can't really pull on air; you can push on air and do push it. • • If you keep your seatbelts fastened, then even if there were to be an explosive decompression, you would still remain inside. Most passenger aircraft the windows are too small to have an adult to be easily be blown out. • • Depressurization lift you up? Not normally. Gravity is still a factor. Assuming the plane is upright and pulling 1 positive G in a normal attitude. If you were in a stairwell and an overhead window blew out, then it is possible you could be blown directly upward. But I can't think off hand of any aircraft that is configure in a way that is likely. The closest I can think of is a case like is a cabin failure like. • • . • Flight 243 • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Fl... • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Al... • • I doubt the depressurization blast itself would normally be powerful enough to lift you up enough to blow you out. But the resulting slipstream is more likely to blow you out if there is extensive damage. The combination of the two forces increase the odds of ejection. • • Typically the crew in the cockpit are at higher risk then the passengers. Typically the windows are bigger in the cockpit and there is much higher risk of damage like from bird strikes. If a window is blown out in a cockpit or in a tail gunner position, it is possible to be shot out like a BB in a gun. • • Flight 5390 Pilot windscreen failures • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_... • • Normal you will not be directly lifted up by depressurization because in most cases you don't have a large reservoir of air under you to blow you out like a gun. However if there is structural failure in such a way the slipstream comes through the cabin, it is very easy to get blown out. • • Good depressurization description. • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabin_pr... • • In the unlikely case of cabin decompression hypoxia is more likely to be fatal. If you fly on a pressurized aircraft you should pay attention to safety lecture. Depending on your health and the altitude you can pass out in seconds or minutes. Hypoxia death is not normally a direct threat in decompression, but if the pilot doesn't get his O2 on before he passes out it could be fatal for everyone on board. Like in the case of the golfer. • • Payne Stewart • http://www.airsafe.com/stewart.htm
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