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re: Updated: Woman gets partially sucked out of airplane window **1 Passenger has died
Posted on 4/17/18 at 7:21 pm to baldona
Posted on 4/17/18 at 7:21 pm to baldona
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baldona
They pulled her back through the tiny window. She endured -insane cold, no oxygen. How TFW you react to an engine blowing and your seatmate getting sucked out like Final Destination
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Posted on 4/17/18 at 7:23 pm to baldona
Explosive decompression is just that; explosive.
She would have been sucked out instantly.
She would have been sucked out instantly.
Posted on 4/17/18 at 7:33 pm to liz18lsu
Should have kept her seatbelt on.
Posted on 4/17/18 at 7:36 pm to liz18lsu
A British Airlines pilot survived something like that when his windscreen came off.
Posted on 4/17/18 at 7:51 pm to WestSideTiger
Who took this picture?
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:02 pm to indianswim
A thread yesterday stated Southwest never suffered a passenger fatality
Cursed
Cursed
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:06 pm to indianswim
First passenger to die in Southwest Airlines history.
Now several years back they ran off the runway at Midway and killed someone in a car.
A LONG great streak broken today.
Now several years back they ran off the runway at Midway and killed someone in a car.
A LONG great streak broken today.
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:07 pm to genro
eta: :coco2:
This post was edited on 4/17/18 at 8:09 pm
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:07 pm to genro
It's from a TV show, Mayday!, about British Airways Flt 5390. The left front windscreen wasn't properly installed and blew out at 17,400'. The pilot had already unfastened his shoulder and lap belts. He got sucked out in the explosive decompression, but his legs got hung up in the controls. A flight attendant came into the cockpit and grabbed the pilots belt to keep him from slipping the rest of the way out.
350 mph wind, 1 degree F, and minimal O2 for a few minutes. The pilot's face was banging on the side window with unblinking eyes. They thought he was dead, but didn't let go because they were afraid he might get sucked into one of the two engines.
The pilot lived. He had broken bones - arm, wrist, thumb - and hypothermia, but he lived. The flight attendant had a dislocated shoulder and frostbite on his face. Crazy!
350 mph wind, 1 degree F, and minimal O2 for a few minutes. The pilot's face was banging on the side window with unblinking eyes. They thought he was dead, but didn't let go because they were afraid he might get sucked into one of the two engines.
The pilot lived. He had broken bones - arm, wrist, thumb - and hypothermia, but he lived. The flight attendant had a dislocated shoulder and frostbite on his face. Crazy!
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:10 pm to genro
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Who took this picture?
I googled that incident, both those pictures are reenactments.
Dude was outside for something like 22 minutes and survived. All kinds of blood on the plane too.
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:18 pm to The Boat
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Now several years back they ran off the runway at Midway and killed someone in a car.
About 18 or 20 years ago a Southwest pilot trying to beat some approaching bad weather came in "hot" and landed long at Van Nuys (maybe it was Burbank, but I think it was Van Nuys). He overshot the runway, ran through one of those sound/jet blast barriers, a fence, crossed 4 or 5 lanes of traffic and ended up with the nose of the plane in a gas station parking lot. It was a fricking miracle nobody was killed. I think some motorists were injured badly and a bunch of people on the plane were shaken up, but nothing major IIRC.
ETA: It was Burbank.
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Southwest Airlines Flight 1455 was a scheduled passenger flight from McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas, Nevada to Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport, Burbank, California, that overran the runway during landing on March 5, 2000. The aircraft, a Boeing 737-3T5, registration N668SW,[1] came to rest on a city street adjacent to a gas station. The National Transportation Safety Board found that the incident was due to the pilots attempting to land with excessive speed. They also blamed the air traffic controller for placing them in a position from which their only option was a go around. Two of the flight attendants were seriously injured, and there were many minor injuries. As a result of the incident, the airport installed an Engineered Materials Arrestor System (EMAS) at the east end of the incident runway.
This post was edited on 4/17/18 at 8:21 pm
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:27 pm to genro
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Who took this picture?
Selfie stick baw!
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:28 pm to baldona
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I just don't see that.
This post was edited on 4/17/18 at 8:29 pm
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:31 pm to White Roach
I live 15 min from Burbank and have flown in and out of there many times.
The Burbank runway is notoriously short, and being smack dab in the middle of the city, there isn't space for planes to land at the same angle as almost all other airports. It's a known problem, but they can't do anything about it.
As such, landings at Burbank are always bumpy and awful. They also shut down that gas station out of fear of a repeat incident.
The Burbank runway is notoriously short, and being smack dab in the middle of the city, there isn't space for planes to land at the same angle as almost all other airports. It's a known problem, but they can't do anything about it.
As such, landings at Burbank are always bumpy and awful. They also shut down that gas station out of fear of a repeat incident.
Posted on 4/17/18 at 8:37 pm to 632627
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hey also shut down that gas station out of fear of a repeat incident.
I read that in the Wiki article. It's now "greenspace"! With the proper ear protection it might be a cool spot to watch the planes take off and land.
Also from the Wiki article:
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As with runway 4R/22L at the Little Rock National Airport, site of the American Airlines Flight 1420 overrun accident, runway 8/26 in Burbank was exempt from the 1,000-foot (300 m) runway safety area standard. The NTSB cited this accident in a recommendation for installing the engineered materials arrestor system (EMAS) at airports where it is not feasible to establish the 1,000-foot (300 m) runway safety area (RSA).[11] A US$4,000,000 EMAS subsequently installed as a result of this accident at this airport, now the Bob Hope Airport, stopped a private jet on Friday, October 13, 2006 with no injuries or aircraft damage.[12]
Posted on 4/17/18 at 9:09 pm to indianswim
Wow, crazy. I'm sure my wife knows the victim after looking at her profile, she's involved with the United Way for Central New Mexico. What a terrible way to go, feel bad for her family.
Posted on 4/17/18 at 9:35 pm to RAG1N_T1GER77
Flying tomorrow
Wish me luck
Wish me luck
Posted on 4/17/18 at 9:48 pm to LSUvegasbombed
What happened to the victim is terrible but the fact that the plane landed lot safely just shows how far air safety has come.
Posted on 4/17/18 at 9:54 pm to Dizz
Sounds like the pilots and attendants did an A+ job mitigating the situation. Reports are that the woman was unconscious when they pulled her back in. They tried for a long time to revive her via CPR but her injuries were too much.
Sad for the victim and her family. Horrifying to everyone who witnessed and survived it.
Sad for the victim and her family. Horrifying to everyone who witnessed and survived it.
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