Is it possible to get sucked out of an airplane? – IOTW Report

Is it possible to get sucked out of an airplane?

Yep.

22 Comments on Is it possible to get sucked out of an airplane?

  1. “Is it possible to get sucked out of an airplane?”

    …it is IRL, too.

    …there was an Aloha Airlines inter-island flight that suddenly became a convertible, sucking an entire stewardess bodily out, and she was never found.
    https://www.staradvertiser.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Aloha-243-color.jpg

    …there was this gal partly sucked out of a Southwest Airlines flight when an uncontained engine failure took out her window, but it’s a toss whether that or the flying engine parts did her in.

    https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/airplane-makes-emergency-landing-at-philadelphia-international-airport/52411/

    …and there is the pilot that
    LocoBlancoSaltine mentions above, but he lived through a long flight outside the airplane. Seems the flight attendants (male) took turns holding what they thought was a dead guy by the ankles just to keep him from damaging the engines or flight control surfaces. It was all because a lazy mechanic didn’t want to go to another building to get the right fasteners to hold the windshield in, so he just jammed some wrong ones halfway on there.

    https://youtu.be/bqRWupOv8DQ

    …you know what they say, for want of a nail the shoe was lost…

    …and that’s just the NON terrorists ones. Sand bastards claimed many, many more…

    …I became a student of air accidents when I took Mass Casualty classes and started reading NTSB reports. I’m a lot of fun to sit next to on airplanes, you should ask the engineer I went on a 3 hour flight to NOLA with and regaled him about the failure of maintenance inverted flight that killed everyone on an Alaska Airlines plane that was the same model as the one we were flying on until his eyes started to bug out…

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  2. It happened to an Aloha Airlines Flight Attendant. A hole appeared in the fuselage and pulled her out. The poor lady fell to her death. I can’t remember if she fell into the ocean or land.

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  3. Timbuk- if my memory deserts me correctly, the lady went thru an engine. The Alaska dc9 was out of control due to a failed horiz. stab actutator. It wasnt lubed properly due to access problems. Many different makes of aircraft have similar issues. “You can’t maintain it if you can’t reach it.” Especially if your boss is breathing down your collar.

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  4. Yes Supernightshade, that Aloha flight shook the hell out of folks.
    That is such a fucked up way to die.
    I believe Popular Mechanics had a cover story on it.

    With human competence on a serious decline, and math being racist, planes will likely be dropping from the sky pretty often…

    BTW, anyone mention Goldfinger?

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  5. Kamala Harris read that title and thought it read “Is it possible to get sucked on an airplane.” She answered, “Of course it is – if I’m aboard, and you have a job for me.”

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