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Old 07-25-2008, 03:27 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda View Post
that's nothing, 2 pilots actually landed this airplane



they had a story on this on the discovery channel show Mayday. it was a plane that was past it's life cycle running thousands of hours over what it should have been, and as a result had stress fractures that separately formed and eventually all connected together and tore the roof of the plane off midflight. the only death was a stewardess that was sucked out with the explosive decompression, but the pilots managed to land it and save all the passengers
Sweet Jesus, that would be scary. You'd think the seat would be ripped off going that fast with next to no wind resistance, and the passengers faces would all be wind and cold-burned. That would be absolutely terrifying.
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