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matthyaouw
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I've been told that commercial aircraft don't provide parachutes due to the fact that depressurising the aircraft suddenly to let everyone jump out would kill them. This doesn't add up... If the plane is at 40,000ft, then fair enough, you can't really blow the doors, but if the plane is in trouble then it's not going to stay at that altitude very long, so as it decends there must be a point where the doors can be safely blown (perhaps the cabin could be decompressed slowly as it decends?)
Anyway, surely the problems caused by decompression must be less than those caused by sudden, flaming "supercompression"?
Anyway, surely the problems caused by decompression must be less than those caused by sudden, flaming "supercompression"?