Plane Answers: Can passengers survive an explosive depressurization?

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The disorientation due to the effects of pressure change on the ears is not likely. Unless your eustacian tubes are clogged and the inner ear fills with fluid in 1 sec after the ear drums rupture, then maybe. The real cause of disorientation is most likely hypoxia and the fact that an explosive decompression will take what ever air is available inside your lungs away causing the rapid onset of hypoxia symptoms - one of which is disorientation.

4-17-2010 @ 11:50PM

Leon said...

Just plain shock involved. Try pushing the envelope with a sports motorcycle. Just don't raise your head, unless you feel you are the Macho Man or, Macho Woman. If you feel that way, do not try it. The wind can produce injury, like wham up side your head. Now think straight after that effect. I think drunk people would have a better chance, not with the Motorcycle, the event of stuff going wrong at 33 thousand feet. They have already been whammed upside the head, for " for billing and marketing purposes."

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