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To: Paal Gulli

No depressurization, intercept pilots were able to see the pilot slumped over, windows would have been frosted over if a decompress, most likely a medical issue.


15 posted on 06/09/2023 10:58:40 AM PDT by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even n the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Robe
"No depressurization, intercept pilots were able to see the pilot slumped over, windows would have been frosted over if a decompress, most likely a medical issue."

Failure to pressurize isn't a depressurization. Humidity vents overboard along with the cabin air in the climb. The pilot -- if he's still breathing -- still would be respiring moisture.

OpSpec SOP of many organizations includes turning on windscreen anti-ice in the run-up in the belief it will make the windscreen more pliable and less likely to shatter in the event of a bird strike. Low humidity and operating windscreen anti-ice would have reduced and could have eliminated the tendency to ice. I think it's speculative to say the icing had to have been so severe that the intercept pilots could not possibly have seen the outline of a shape slumped forward in the left seat.

I'm not arguing it wasn't a medical, I'm arguing that isn't the only option that fits the known details.

16 posted on 06/09/2023 11:45:31 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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