Catastrophic Decompression News Today

Seriously related to the plane or even existed according to american officials, although australian officials, as steve rattner pointed out, have a credible plan in place and officials in place who have done this before and they seem to feel that they have found something. having said that, there are several possible scenarios that are being discussed by aviation experts and by those following the story online, one scenario is that there was an electrical fire that forced the pilots to take emer...

Emergency situation. one of the other things, of course, is pressurization issues. if you have a high altitude pressurization problem, catastrophic decompression, the time of useful consciousness in the 20,000 to 30,000 foot range is a matter of seconds. while crews are trained to deal with these emergency situations, these rapid decompressions or explosive decompression situations, again its all a matter of timing. and similar to a -- where he was flying the crew passed out because of oxygen de...