Can you say: Payne Stewart ? - Explosive Decompression? Try it yourself, numbnuts.

Todd Pattist wrote

the pressurization system didn't work
(otherwise the window wouldn't have iced)

I wish that I could have a dollar for every time that I have
had the cockpit windows frost-up (inside) in the old Boeings
with full pressurization at FL350.

Bob Moore

Robert Moore wrote:

the pressurization system didn't work
(otherwise the window wouldn't have iced)

I wish that I could have a dollar for every time that I have
had the cockpit windows frost-up (inside) in the old Boeings
with full pressurization at FL350.

Never having flown a pressurized aircraft, I can't speak
from any experience. Here is what the NTSB said about this
accident, however:

"When bleed air is supplied to the cabin,
the cockpit windshield receives a constant flow of warm air
that prevents or removes condensation,
regardless of the ambient temperature or pressure in the
cabin. Thus, the windshield would be
relatively clear following depressurization from a breach or
other undesired outflow from the cabin with
continued bleed air supply to the cabin, whereas
condensation could form and remain on the windshield
following a depressurization caused by a loss of bleed air
inflow to the cabin. Therefore, the accident
airplane most likely did not have an inflow of bleed air to
the cabin."
Todd Pattist
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