#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 personally 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 mid-air 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?