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re: re: Southwest airline fatality, did her death save others?
Posted on 4/19/18 at 8:50 am to Napoleon
Posted on 4/19/18 at 8:50 am to Napoleon
No the shrapnel from the engine exploding came through the window and hit her in the head/neck area.
She did not plug the hole because the woman was skinny and the only thing holding her in the airplane was the passengers who were holding her by her legs as she was dangling out of the plane window by her knees.
They also quickly dragged her back into the plane and the window was wide open for several minutes well over 20k feet.
Hope she booked her flight with an American Express card so the insurance kicked in for her family. Southwest will definitely wind up paying out $6 to 15 million to her family for this fiasco.
She did not plug the hole because the woman was skinny and the only thing holding her in the airplane was the passengers who were holding her by her legs as she was dangling out of the plane window by her knees.
They also quickly dragged her back into the plane and the window was wide open for several minutes well over 20k feet.
Hope she booked her flight with an American Express card so the insurance kicked in for her family. Southwest will definitely wind up paying out $6 to 15 million to her family for this fiasco.
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Posted on 4/19/18 at 8:58 am to RogerTheShrubber
I'll pass on the patio seating.
Posted on 4/19/18 at 10:08 am to Napoleon
that's what the oxygen masks are for.
Posted on 4/19/18 at 10:12 am to Napoleon
earth's flat, no such thing as depressurization
Posted on 4/19/18 at 10:19 am to Napoleon
Got on a plane yesterday and this was the view out of my window. Before the Southwest thing I wouldn't have even noticed.
Posted on 4/19/18 at 10:21 am to MorbidTheClown
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Before the Southwest thing I wouldn't have even noticed.
Noticed what? that planes have engines?
Posted on 4/19/18 at 10:28 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
no, that it was right outside of my window.
Posted on 4/19/18 at 10:29 am to Napoleon
Why didnt they flex seal that shite
Posted on 4/19/18 at 10:31 am to Will Cover
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I'm guilty of unbuckling my seat belt when the pilot gives permission to do so. But I now understand the importance of keeping it buckled and why it is more than just a suggestion.
I imagine a lot more people - especially on a window seat - will be keeping it buckled.
Of course... I'm also a fatty so maybe it would be harder for me to be sucked out.
Posted on 4/19/18 at 10:31 am to ThatMakesSense
saw this on a pilot forum:
"That pretty much is a 100% fatal event. When this happens you are sucked out through a window in about half a second that you normally could not force yourself out of even if you tried very hard. So it is breaking shoulders, clavicles, arms and probably some ribs and maybe even her neck just doing that. Now the top half of her body is suddenly in 500 mph wind. The force on this of a body stuck there is almost impossible to imagine. The wind has enough force to tear exposed skin. Her arms would suddenly flail so hard the would be shattered in several places. It is almost certain her neck would have been broken. Eye lids could be torn and her jaw dislocated just form the force of the wind. Not to mention the air doing all that is about -30F degrees and can freeze her skin in seconds. I am sure that just to get her back in took a few people pulling on her like hell."
"That pretty much is a 100% fatal event. When this happens you are sucked out through a window in about half a second that you normally could not force yourself out of even if you tried very hard. So it is breaking shoulders, clavicles, arms and probably some ribs and maybe even her neck just doing that. Now the top half of her body is suddenly in 500 mph wind. The force on this of a body stuck there is almost impossible to imagine. The wind has enough force to tear exposed skin. Her arms would suddenly flail so hard the would be shattered in several places. It is almost certain her neck would have been broken. Eye lids could be torn and her jaw dislocated just form the force of the wind. Not to mention the air doing all that is about -30F degrees and can freeze her skin in seconds. I am sure that just to get her back in took a few people pulling on her like hell."
Posted on 4/19/18 at 10:34 am to Clint Torres
well.... that doesn't sound like fun at all.
Posted on 4/19/18 at 10:38 am to Clint Torres
If you look at the fuselage to the rear of the affected window, you'll get an idea it was over quickly and not a pretty sight.
Heartbreaking
Heartbreaking
Posted on 4/19/18 at 10:40 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
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earth's flat
Nope.
If it were, cats would already have pushed everything over the edge.
Since they have not, clearly the earth must be round.
Cats are real jerks.
Posted on 4/19/18 at 10:42 am to ThatMakesSense
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Coward, Lucas, and Bergersen were exposed to the effects of explosive decompression and died in the positions indicated by the diagram. Subsequent investigation by forensic pathologists determined that Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the 60 centimetres (24 in) diameter opening created by the jammed interior trunk door by escaping air and violently dismembered, including bisection of his thoracoabdominal cavity, which further resulted in expulsion of all of the internal organs of his chest and abdomen, except the trachea and a section of small intestine, and of the thoracic spine. These were projected some distance, one section later being found 10 metres (30 ft) vertically above the exterior pressure door.[6]
LINK
OH
MY
GOD
Posted on 4/19/18 at 10:55 am to ThatMakesSense
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I'm betting the blood was from her body being forced through the window.
I’m betting that it was from the shrapnel that hit her in the face and killed her. How much are we betting?
Posted on 4/19/18 at 11:21 am to MrLSU
Barely 24 hours old and it's "this fiasco"?? A part whose mean time between failures is likely in the millions of hours broke and caused a one in several million fatal accident and it's all of a sudden a fiasco??
Posted on 4/19/18 at 11:27 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Thats scary.
Posted on 4/19/18 at 11:31 am to supatigah
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Coward, Lucas, and Bergersen were exposed to the effects of explosive decompression and died in the positions indicated by the diagram. Subsequent investigation by forensic pathologists determined that Hellevik, being exposed to the highest pressure gradient and in the process of moving to secure the inner door, was forced through the 60 centimetres (24 in) diameter opening created by the jammed interior trunk door by escaping air and violently dismembered, including bisection of his thoracoabdominal cavity, which further resulted in expulsion of all of the internal organs of his chest and abdomen, except the trachea and a section of small intestine, and of the thoracic spine. These were projected some distance, one section later being found 10 metres (30 ft) vertically above the exterior pressure door.[6]
PVT, damn you scary.
Posted on 4/19/18 at 11:34 am to NYNolaguy1
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Thats scary.
Yeah, I can't imagine how terrified those people were.
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It was a milk run, a routine bit of island hopping. The Aloha Airlines jet was cruising at 24,000 ft., just 25 miles southeast of the Hawaiian island of Maui, en route from Hilo to Honolulu. Everything seemed normal aboard Flight 243 last Thursday afternoon when suddenly -- with a whoosh like a paper bag popping -- a gaping hole blew open in the fuselage directly above the first- class compartment. "Everything was flying around -- books, papers, money," said Stanford Samson, a passenger seated nearby. "A stewardess was in the aisle being pulled toward the hole.
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Sixty-one of the 90 passengers aboard Flight 243 were treated for injuries, mostly bruises and cuts from the debris and the rippling winds. But there was one fatality: Flight Attendant Clarabelle Lansing, who had flown with the airline for 37 years. Lansing, one of two attendants near the first-class compartment when the roof blew open, was apparently sucked out of the Aloha jet by the escaping air.
LINK
And keep in mind this plane was at 24,000 feet when it started falling apart.
Posted on 4/19/18 at 11:39 am to supatigah
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OH
MY
GOD
Yeah I read all that. Could you imagine cleaning all of that up?
There are pictures of his remains btw.
This post was edited on 4/19/18 at 11:41 am
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