Comment on I am about to board a flight. What sequence of events would occur if (by chance) for no apparent reason a window got completely smashed out?

adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Worth pointing out that it is highly unlikely for an airplane window to either smash or pop out — they’re multi-layered Lexan reinforced panes mounted from the inside. And they’ve all got a hole on the inside pane so that a controlled decompression with a loud whistling would happen long before the entire pane would give way. This would likely provide time for the masks to drop and the pilot to adjust altitude long before any explosive decompression (if that even occurred).

Likewise, doors are designed not to open at altitude.

So the only weak spots these days are door plugs and the bathrooms.

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