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Old January 14th 04, 09:12 PM
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Default Can you say: Payne Stewart ? - Explosive Decompression? Try it yourself, numbnuts.

From: "= Vox Populi ©" Vox Populi ©"
Date: 1/14/2004 1:31 PM Central Standard Time
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Arnold Wolfcaste wrote:
"Yardpilot" wrote in message
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Those delightfully quirky fellows on Myth Busters decided to play
explosive
decompression from a gunshot with a DC-9. They pressurized it and
fired
through the skin from the inside. Nothing. They pressurized it and
fired
through a window. Nothing. Oh, well. Looks like a big, "Neener!
Neener" goes
out to certain folks.


Sure numbnuts, try it in actual flight and see:

By Brian Knowlton International Herald Tribune
WASHINGTON - Investigators were sifting Tuesday through a small, blackened
crater in a South Dakota pasture where the private jet carrying the golfer
Payne
Stewart and five other people had crashed, ending an eerie flight that
millions
of people, including Mr. Stewart's wife, had followed live on television.
Bodies still were being recovered from the site.

The Lear 35 had taken off Monday in Orlando, Florida, on a flight that was
supposed to carry Mr. Stewart, a two-time U.S. Open champion, to a Houston
golf
tournament.

But it soon deviated from its flight plan, heading due northwest and
apparently
soaring far above the altitudes for which it normally is certified.
Air-traffic
controllers were unable to summon any response by radio.

As the plane continued on a doomed 1,400-mile (2250-kilometer) trajectory
across
the U.S. heartland, its windows frozen over and its passengers quite possibly
dead, military jets were scrambled to shadow it, and news reports followed
its
progress. People in the Dakotas, directly on its path, kept one wary eye on
their televisions, another on the skies.

Among those listening in horror was Mr. Stewart's wife, Tracey, a native of
Australia. From their home in Orlando, she tried to reach her husband via
cellular phone, according to her brother, Mike Ferguson.

''It's just really bad for my sister to be watching it on CNN, knowing that
it
was her husband on board,'' he told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Mr. Stewart, whose knickers and colorful tam-o'-shanters made him one of the
most recognized of professional golfers, was co-owner of the plane.

Also on the plane were his agents, Robert Fraley and Van Ardan, and the
pilots,
Michael Kling and Stephanie Bellegarrigue. Bruce Borland, a golf-course
designer
who worked for the professional golfer Jack Nicklaus, was aboard as well, Mr.
Nicklaus said.

Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board, who flew Monday to
Mina, South Dakota, in the north-central part of the state, said it might be
some time before an explanation emerged.

''It's not going to be an easy investigation,'' said Robert Francis, vice
chairman of the safety board. ''It looks like the aircraft was pretty much
vertical when it hit the ground. The ground is soft, and it went in fairly
deep.''

The crash site, in the middle of a flat wheat field, was cordoned off. Black
cows grazed nearby as about 20 investigators in blue, yellow and white
jumpsuits
sifted through the tangled debris.

Aviation specialists speculated that the plane might have suffered a sudden
decompression at high altitude, which could have rendered the two pilots, as
well as the passengers, unconscious within seconds. In that scenario,
bitterly
cold stratospheric air, minus 70 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 56 centigrade) at
the
altitudes involved, could have rushed into the plane, causing windows to fog
and
freeze.


"Aviation specialists" also speculated the aircraft's pressurization had failed
at a low altitude and the passengers and crew simply went to sleep not knowing
why.

If your "aviation specialists" were correct at least one pilot would have had
time to put his oxygen mask on. Please note the USAF pilots saw no evidence of
explosive decompression which should have left some evidence on the exterior:
ripped skin, blown window, blown hatch etc. There is a big difference between
explosive and sudden decompressions.

Now how about quoting from the final accident report?

Dan, U. S. Air Force, retired