No way did this happen !?!

[markk]

In Soviet Russia, plane flies you!



...I'll get my coat

Where does that joke come from? I'ts bugging me now...

 

[Tombo]

Family Guy?

 

[The Dread Pirate]

Family Guy?

Yeah but they stole it from somewhere/one else!

edit: donno who tho

 

[4T5]

Thats what I call no frills flying.

What if the person was given a really big hug and a Cup a Soup just before they went on to the plane, would that make any difference?

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[Col_M]

Even a brief time exposed above 17000 feet puts you at serious risk of hypoxia (lack of oxygen to the brain). Above 20000 you can forget it.

I agree that at the altitude planes fly at (approx 40,000ft) he'd be very very lucky to survive.

Correct me if I'm wrong as there may be some differences between my knowledge from mountaineering and yours as a skydiver but as far as i was aware surviving at 17000ft isn't a big problem and most mountaineers don't use oxygen upto this level. Some nutters have even climbed Everest at 28,000ft without oxygen which shows there is enough oxygen up there to survive on, well enough for moderate activity.
The main problem I would have thought of would be AMS causing pulmanary or cerebral edema (HAPE or HACE respectively).

The worst i've done is slept at about 12500ft with no acclimitisation and god did my head hurt and nothing makes it go away

 

[Brownpants]

Yeah but they stole it from somewhere/one else!

edit: donno who tho

The twilight zone movie!

The reason i prefer to close my window on a plane.

 

[The_Judge]

he was sitting on the landing gear, perfectly possible, but he would have had to been concious when they came into land and put the gear down, so he could hold onto somthing.

 

[Mr_Vengeance]

This is not new, people have clung onto the bottom of planes before and survived whole journeys.

 

[helmet]

John McLean is that you?

 

[The Dread Pirate]

John McLean is that you?

ROFL!!

 

[robbiemc]

This has certainly happened before. The pilot of flight BA 5390 was sucked out of the cockpit window, but managed to survive.

The cause of the decompression was clearly visible - the left windscreen had blown out, allowing the higher pressure air inside the plane to blow out through the cockpit. Since Tim Lancaster had released both his seatbelts he was partially sucked out of the now non-existent window and was pinned back against the roof of the cockpit. His shirt had been ripped off his back and his legs had become trapped in around the control column, forcing it forward.

I saw this on the Discovery channel, and theres a good write up of the incident here.

 

[coolpunkskater]

4 the media never fabricate the news.

They never do ? do they ?? LMAO

 

[Vulcan]

This has certainly happened before. The pilot of flight BA 5390 was sucked out of the cockpit window, but managed to survive.


I saw this on the Discovery channel, and theres a good write up of the incident here.

Yeah that's not really the same though. He wasn't at 35,000 ft for an hour+.