I’ve heard of pebbles flying into and craking automobiles’ windshields, but never have I thought of airplanes’ windshields to unexpectedly crack. Hope the passengers got a new flight.
At 30,000 feet an Aircraft is pressurized, and decompression could occur in 2 of 3 ways:
Explosive decompression
Air Force and Military Aircraft: In explosive decompression, cabin air humidity immediately cools and condenses into fog upon a sudden reduction of air pressure to that equivalent to 60,000 feet altitude. Within 2 seconds, the fog boils back into vapor in the new, low-pressure environment.
Explosive decompression occurs at a rate swifter than that at which air can escape from the lungs, typically in less than 0.1 to 0.5 seconds. The risk of lung trauma is very high, as is the danger from any unsecured objects that can become projectiles because of the explosive force, which may be likened to a bomb detonation.
Immediately after an explosive decompression, a heavy fog may fill the aircraft cabin as the air cools, raising the relative humidity and causing sudden condensation. Military pilots with oxygen masks must pressure-breathe, whereby the lungs fill with air when relaxed, and effort has to be exerted to expel the air again.
Rapid decompression
This is what that aircraft would be undergoing. Rapid decompression typically takes more than 0.1 to 0.5 seconds, allowing the lungs to decompress more quickly than the cabin. The risk of lung damage is still present, but significantly reduced compared with explosive decompression. In modern aircraft there are panels that open in the cockpit to equalize the pressure between the cabin and the cockpit.
Gradual decompressionSlow, or gradual, decompression occurs slowly enough to go unnoticed and might only be detected by instruments. This type of decompression may also come about from a failure to pressurize as an aircraft climbs to altitude. An example of this is the 2005 Helios Airways Flight 522 crash, in which the pilots failed to check if the aircraft was pressurizing automatically, eventually losing consciousness (along with most of the passengers and crew) from hypoxia.
David_the_CAD almost 2 years ago
Leave it to Florida.
Templo S.U.D. almost 2 years ago
I’ve heard of pebbles flying into and craking automobiles’ windshields, but never have I thought of airplanes’ windshields to unexpectedly crack. Hope the passengers got a new flight.
Caldonia almost 2 years ago
You say viruses, I say sea monkeys.
JDP_Huntington Beach almost 2 years ago
At 30,000 feet an Aircraft is pressurized, and decompression could occur in 2 of 3 ways:
Explosive decompression
Air Force and Military Aircraft: In explosive decompression, cabin air humidity immediately cools and condenses into fog upon a sudden reduction of air pressure to that equivalent to 60,000 feet altitude. Within 2 seconds, the fog boils back into vapor in the new, low-pressure environment.
Explosive decompression occurs at a rate swifter than that at which air can escape from the lungs, typically in less than 0.1 to 0.5 seconds. The risk of lung trauma is very high, as is the danger from any unsecured objects that can become projectiles because of the explosive force, which may be likened to a bomb detonation.
Immediately after an explosive decompression, a heavy fog may fill the aircraft cabin as the air cools, raising the relative humidity and causing sudden condensation. Military pilots with oxygen masks must pressure-breathe, whereby the lungs fill with air when relaxed, and effort has to be exerted to expel the air again.
Rapid decompression
This is what that aircraft would be undergoing. Rapid decompression typically takes more than 0.1 to 0.5 seconds, allowing the lungs to decompress more quickly than the cabin. The risk of lung damage is still present, but significantly reduced compared with explosive decompression. In modern aircraft there are panels that open in the cockpit to equalize the pressure between the cabin and the cockpit.
Gradual decompressionSlow, or gradual, decompression occurs slowly enough to go unnoticed and might only be detected by instruments. This type of decompression may also come about from a failure to pressurize as an aircraft climbs to altitude. An example of this is the 2005 Helios Airways Flight 522 crash, in which the pilots failed to check if the aircraft was pressurizing automatically, eventually losing consciousness (along with most of the passengers and crew) from hypoxia.
Huckleberry Hiroshima almost 2 years ago
Oh Florida gets to have all the fun.
Take care, may prolific feather collector Herbert “Sneezy” McAchoord be with you, and gesundheit.
lmuller7 almost 2 years ago
Just one cup of water contains more molecules of H2O, Than cups of water on the entire earth ! VERY, hard to believe !
artegal almost 2 years ago
It’s only a matter of time until some guy fills his pillowcase with gravel.
FassEddie almost 2 years ago
Have you heard about those new corduroy pillows?
They’re making head lines.
LAFITZGERALD almost 2 years ago
Wow, we really do learn something new every day into every night!! That is one of my favorable proverbs for life!
oakie817 almost 2 years ago
did the airline call safelight?
petermerck almost 2 years ago
The ocean=fish’s toilet.
WestofthePecan Premium Member almost 2 years ago
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2022/4/1/23006687/delta-flight-salt-lake-city-landed-cockpit-windshield-cracked-photo
The glass did not fully fail and there was no decompression.
Angry Indeed almost 2 years ago
Does Safelight repair aircraft windows while they’re still in the air?