Everyone picking aisles in the front... you're far more likely to survive a plane crash in the back of the aircraft
New York Times said:Mr. Tranchin said that one of the passengers helping had at one point placed his lower back up against the opening in the plane, in an apparent effort to help with the compression. The man did this for the next 20 minutes, Mr. Tranchin said, adding that the man later told him that the pressure at his back had been extreme.
In the meantime, passengers wept and screamed for roughly 10 or 15 minutes, oxygen masks strapped to their faces, Mr. Kraidelman said.
Mr. Tranchin said he spent those precious minutes texting goodbyes to people important in his life.
Because they don't know any better.If these planes are designed to fly/land with only one engine and depressurized, why was everyone wailing/ screaming and convinced they were going to die? Does the plane fly more erratically when depressurized? Was it just the visual/sound of the blown out window, O2 masks and apparently blood?
If these planes are designed to fly/land with only one engine and depressurized, why was everyone wailing/ screaming and convinced they were going to die? Does the plane fly more erratically when depressurized? Was it just the visual/sound of the blown out window, O2 masks and apparently blood?
Yeah. I tend to think people don't always act "rationally" when part of the vehicle they are in literally explodes. It's easy to say you'd be calm from an outside perspective, sort of like people who say things like "I'd definitely be able to disarm a man with a gun trying to rob a store I was in."
What's really shitty for the woman that died is since this is Southwest she picked that seat. Had she chosen to sit anywhere else she would still be alive. Stuff like that is so sad to me. A small choice leading to the end of your life.
You're asking why an engine explosion that shot debris into the cabin, blowing out the window, blood going everywhere and a lady being killed with half of her body being sucked out the hole while oxygen masks are deployed caused average people to panic?If these planes are designed to fly/land with only one engine and depressurized, why was everyone wailing/ screaming and convinced they were going to die? Does the plane fly more erratically when depressurized? Was it just the visual/sound of the blown out window, O2 masks and apparently blood?
If these planes are designed to fly/land with only one engine and depressurized, why was everyone wailing/ screaming and convinced they were going to die? Does the plane fly more erratically when depressurized? Was it just the visual/sound of the blown out window, O2 masks and apparently blood?
Indeed. The flight that landed in NO recently during severe weather.. now that's some scary shit. I've had an aborted landing because a continental jet was sitting across the runway. We were seconds from touching down and then immediately thrust back hard into our seats. The pilot waited forever to let us know he had aborted. I've also had malfunctioning landing gear. At first they wouldn't retract and then on landing they had issues getting them to come back down. "We are fairly certain the landing gear is now down.. waiting on visual confirmation from the tower." Lol
If these planes are designed to fly/land with only one engine and depressurized, why was everyone wailing/ screaming and convinced they were going to die? Does the plane fly more erratically when depressurized? Was it just the visual/sound of the blown out window, O2 masks and apparently blood?
If these planes are designed to fly/land with only one engine and depressurized, why was everyone wailing/ screaming and convinced they were going to die? Does the plane fly more erratically when depressurized? Was it just the visual/sound of the blown out window, O2 masks and apparently blood?
If these planes are designed to fly/land with only one engine and depressurized, why was everyone wailing/ screaming and convinced they were going to die? Does the plane fly more erratically when depressurized? Was it just the visual/sound of the blown out window, O2 masks and apparently blood?
Go ahead and shit yourself. I'm sure I would as well. I was just curious if depressurization causes crazy turbulence/ destabakization which would lead to more panic.This post is weird but the bolded is especially strange. These so called planes hey? I tell you, I'd be shitting myself if that was happening and I like to think I'm composed.
If these planes are designed to fly/land with only one engine and depressurized, why was everyone wailing/ screaming and convinced they were going to die? Does the plane fly more erratically when depressurized? Was it just the visual/sound of the blown out window, O2 masks and apparently blood?
This post is weird but the bolded is especially strange. These so called planes hey? I tell you, I'd be shitting myself if that was happening and I like to think I'm composed.
I probably should have bolded my question. I get the wind and the noise, but does the plane "fly" any differently when depressurized?SUPER weird. Stouffers - put yourself in the literal seats of everyone as they feel the air rushing through the cabin and see one of the engines blown up - it's super fucked up and the conditions are absolutely a fair bit worse than if you're flying normally. Also... unless you're directly in one of the seats around that part of the wing, you are going to have zero visibility into how the engine is faring... in your wildest imagination, that shit could be hanging off and you are seconds from plummeting to your death.
You're seriously asking why people freaked out when an engine exploded and killed one of the passengers and caused plane depressurization, something none of them have probably dealt with?If these planes are designed to fly/land with only one engine and depressurized, why was everyone wailing/ screaming and convinced they were going to die? Does the plane fly more erratically when depressurized? Was it just the visual/sound of the blown out window, O2 masks and apparently blood?
I probably should have bolded my question. I get the wind and the noise, but does the plane "fly" any differently when depressurized?
I probably should have bolded my question. I get the wind and the noise, but does the plane "fly" any differently when depressurized?
From the link above it seems like she was hit from debris. I had thought that the woman who was hit by debris, and the woman partially sucked through the window, were different individuals. I still don't know if they're one and the same.Do we know yet what kind of injury led to this woman's death? Was it asphyxiation from the air pressure? Smoke inhalation? Was she hit by shrapnel or engine heat?
Not to mention the large amount of blood.In terms of other passengers, you'd have an immediate pop of depressurization, it's not a "air sucking out" thing like you see in movies. Masks deploy. So you've got a bang, some loud noise, people freaking out, masks dropping, relatively scary.
Retro Studios x 343 Industries confirmed.I was so busy last night I missed this entire story. That's CRAZY.
Anyway, off to the airport to fly to Texas right now! BYE!
I think SW is more liable. They are kind of known for working their planes pretty hard.Freak accident, people are going to be fired and even possibly go to jail for this. Terrible job by the inspection crew if it really was metal fatigue.
Well the inspectors are SW employees.I think SW is more liable. They are kind of known for working their planes pretty hard.
I think the shrapnel actually pierced the window and hit her, and the window broke apart soon after from the pressure force.Did the shrapnel actually strike the woman or did it just shatter the window? I thought it was the latter from what I'd read.
If these planes are designed to fly/land with only one engine and depressurized, why was everyone wailing/ screaming and convinced they were going to die? Does the plane fly more erratically when depressurized? Was it just the visual/sound of the blown out window, O2 masks and apparently blood?