Plane Answers: Can passengers survive an explosive depressurization?

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Well, if your cabin is ruptured and the fuselage breaks apart, the oxygen masks will drop down, but by then, all the passengers will be knocked unconscious or be dead from sudden asphixiation or hypoxemia.
But for the lucky person who is wearing layers of warm clothes, warm pants, shoes and socks - there is hope.
That is the lone survivor. The one who dressed up and fastened her seatbelt, nice and firmly.
An ocean crash landing is a hopeful thing.
Don't worry about it. Keep the seatbelt on, always bring a change of clothes in your carry-on bag and you may get lucky and land without incident.
If you are unllucky and have to crash land someplace, tree branches are also cushioning to your fall out of the sky.
Keep your Faith in God with you at all times. When it's your time it's your time, but as long as He has plans that involve your participation on Earth, you will survive the crash.

4-17-2010 @ 11:39PM

Mara said...

I liked your last two lines. That was good advice/truth

4-18-2010 @ 2:35AM

KatieCouric'sNemesis said...

Uh...if god is so concerned about my fulfilling his/her plans, perhaps s/he would do well to keep the plane from crashing in the first place.

After all, for any god who can manipulate the elements to sway a pharoah's mind, keeping an airliner from crashing ought to be a lead pipe cinch.

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