Woman Partially Sucked Out of Jet When Window Breaks
Remember what we always say when there is a news article - <i>especially</i> local news! - about anything technical. Don't forget their tenuous relationship with logic and facts when reading this article.<p>> <i>A Southwest Airlines flight landed safely in Philadelphia Tuesday after the jet violently depressurized when a piece of an engine flew into and broke a window, according to passenger accounts</i><p>Violent is relative.<p>> <i>The plane descended by more than 3,000 feet per minute until the pilots leveled out around 10,000 feet.</i><p>3000 fpm is nothing crazy, especially for an emergency descent with a depressurized cabin. I'm glad they included the following line:<p>> <i>Arthur Wolk, an aviation expert, said that is a modest rate of descent and indicated that the pilot had control of the aircraft.</i><p>The plane was never "going down" as one passenger is quoted saying.