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To: valkyry1
Unless it knocked out a window, no.

Even if it did, the cabin exhaust valve would just close to compensate for the loss of air through the window. You might not want to be sitting by that window, it would be kinda breezy, but there would be no explosive decompression.

Nor would this happen:

That was caused by multi point corrosion. The top of the fuselage pealed back at altitude (24,000 feet). Even then, only a single flight attendant,Clarabelle Lansing, and no passengers, "left" the aircraft.

That sort of thing is why they tell you to wear your seatbelt whenever you are in your seat. :)

159 posted on 03/23/2008 8:51:46 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

“That was caused by multi point corrosion.”

AND a stuck outflow valve, that over pressurized the plane.


203 posted on 03/24/2008 8:20:32 AM PDT by AmericanDave ( Terrorism.... it's a growth industry....)
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