120 people sucked out of airplane

[Giancarlo]

If you think I have ego problems now, you should of seen my picture threads..

[Boris Godunov]

Can this thread not be Fezzed, please?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Fez


You were the one who brought my name up. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't of posted in this thread.

But you did, and if you don't chill, you know the drill.

[Sten Sture]

Yikes.

While on one hand it seems completely impossible for everyone to have fallen out, it also seems like a lot of effort to kill people in a country prone to less elaborate methods.

I know that overcrowding on vehicles of all sorts is pretty common over there; anyone know what the capacity of that plane should be for passengers? I doubt it had any seating at all...

[orange]

A number of cargo planes have been designed to open at the rear in flight to drop cargo or paratroops, and crewchiefs, jumpmasters, etc. work back there.

My first thoughts as well.

[Static Universe]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat

A number of cargo planes have been designed to open at the rear in flight to drop cargo or paratroops, and crewchiefs, jumpmasters, etc. work back there.

I would guess the area wouldn't be pressurized when they're actually working back there though. If they area was pressurized and a bunch of people were sitting on the floor, it isn't hard to imagine them all being sucked out if the cargo door suddenly fell off.

[The Mad Monk]

Sava, would you please leave Fez the hell alone?

[Japher]

Unless; they converted the cargo plain into a passenger jet by placing seats on a stage and then just setting the whole gear in there? Then the whole stage would of slid out all at once...

[orange]

C'mon people...It's the DRoC...no one dies 'accidently'

[raghar]

Originally posted by MichaeltheGreat


But you did, and if you don't chill, you know the drill.

Nice poem.
Could you do it as haiku?

[GePap]

This was a passanger flight: the Congolese have to make due with wahtever planes are around, specially since travel by road is almost impossibler, and trvale by river also dangerous.

I am pretty sure, given the reports, that it was an accident, and not "an accident".

[Boris Godunov]

You must chill right now
Or else banning commences
Velociraptor!

[Ned]

It is hard to imagine that none of the passagers had seat belts on. If they didn't or non was available, then this contributed as much as to what happen as did failures in the doors and ramps.

[Lawrence of Arabia]

You can get sucked out of an airplane. That plane was compressed, and when the rear door opened, it decompressed, which led to the air inside rushing out, which sucks everything else out. Now the question is: did the pilots open the door on purpose, on accident, or did it fall off.

planes which drop cargo out of the back are either at low altitudes or are no compressed: above 10,000 everyone in an uncompressed airplane has to wear a mask with oxygen.

[Ned]

They were flying at 33,000 feet at the time. There were 9 survivors who told of baggage flying about. The people who were sucked out were located at the rear of the plane and did not have seats.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,86441,00.html