Asteve
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I find it amazing/sad that with scuba having been around for more than 50 years we still do not know the answer to this simple question.
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One could work out the pressure difference between 20' and cabin pressure of, say, 8000' (assuming the plane does not crash and burn killing everyone on board), and see if it's over 2/1 or not.
I find it amazing/sad that with scuba having been around for more than 50 years we still do not know the answer to this simple question.
It isn't whether the plane crashes and burns, but whether it looses cabin pressure and has the cabin pressure jump to 20,000'.
Funny you should say that... I was going to mention the scene from "Goldfinger" when the bad guy is sucked out the window. But then I remembered a month or two ago we heard about a jet engine failing, sending shrapnel through a passenger's window. She was partially sucked out the window, with fellow passengers trying to pull her back in. She died, although it certainly wasn't because of DCS.There is always a risk in everything we do. We calculate the risks and decide if we want to do whatever we are planning to do. Everytime we drive a car we are running a pretty big risk, but we choose to do it anyway, because we decide that even that risk is too low to worry about.
I have no idea how many airplane flights I have taken over the decades. I have no idea how many flights my friends and family have taken over the decades. I don't know anyone who has ever mentioned being on a flight when the cabin has become depressurized. I suspect the odds of that happening are pretty low. When I plan to fly after diving, I don't give that possibility any more thought than I worry about an accident if I drive to the store for a loaf of bread.