"Martin X. Moleski, SJ" wrote in message
news | On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:37:56 -0600, "Bill Denton"
| wrote:
|
| Given that it is fairly rare for someone to only fire a single shot under
| these circumstances, shouldn't the effect of the typical three shots have
| been considered? While a single shot to the window only created a single
| hole, would it not be possible for three shots into that same window to
| compromise the window structure resulting in the entire window failing
and
| coming out of the aircraft?
|
| Their test sequence was this:
|
| 1. One bullet hole in the glass. No big deal.
|
| 2. One bullet hole through the side of the plane. No big deal.
|
| 3. They blew out the whole window with a small shaped charge.
| Buster the dummy got sucked out the hole.

No he was not. Buster the dummy remained in his seat for all the tests,
although he was crushed by the seat in front of him on the fourth test. The
tray table also hit him in the throat. His arm was pulled out the window on
the third test, but it remained attached to the rest of him. But Buster was
never sucked out any of the holes. The shaped charge was used for the fourth
test. The window was blown out using explosive putty around the edges. The
shaped charge was used to destroy the whole wall. Given that Buster
represented a terrorist using a shaped charge on the fourth test, he
probably richly deserved getting blown up, crushed and burned. :-)

Buster wore his seat belt for all tests.