#38: A Few Questions
Okay, I would like to know what this person’s credentials are. I’ll be the first to admit that I am not a pilot or aerospace engineer or anything like that, but it seems like there are a few holes in this story. First, I don’t think planes break apart midair and fall from the sky all that often. Most crashes, as I understand it, happen as the plane is landing or taking off when they’re not that high in the air, and decompression isn’t as big a deal.
But equally important—and you don’t have to be an airplane engineer to notice the flaw here—is the question of how this person would know. If your plane breaks up midair high enough in the atmosphere that sudden decompression knocks you unconscious, and then suddenly you wake up, and you’re free-falling from the sky, I think there’s a really good chance that you’re not going to survive the impact with the ground. So, how do they know that this is what people experience?