Kevin Byrne
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213 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 6 Sep
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One of the spinning blades and it dislodged a piece of the cowling, which then hit the window and caused a massive instantaneous decompression of the cannon.
Now, that means the poor unfortunate gentleman, who luckily, by the way, had his seatbelt on, the first bit of his body, his head and the shoulders, went out of the aircraft.
Had it been uncontained, in other words, no seatbelt, he might have had his whole body sucked out, and that would have been catastrophic in every sense of the word.
Yeah, yeah.
It's just that if it's a piece of metal off a broken blade, it goes through the cowling, even though most of them are designed to contain the blades which are spinning at many thousands of RPM.
The centrifugal forces are catastrophic, or not catastrophic, but they're very significant.
But it only has to go maybe a few metres between the engine cowling and the window, and the window is a weak point in that regard.
It's a very good thing.
Two things are very good.
The aircraft is climbing through about 15,000 feet.
So first of all, the altitude difference, it's about half the density of air that you get at the sea level.
So the squeeze effect, people think they're sucked out of aircraft.
In fact, they're not that.
They're actually squeezed out like toothpaste from a tube in that way.
Yeah, so at 33,000 feet, then it's catastrophic from that point of view.
You probably can't survive it.
So this was lucky.
Also, the aircraft was climbing to its cruising altitude and it was doing probably between 250 and 280 knots.
So it's not going that fast forward.
So the man suffered, you know, minor enough injuries considering what he was exposed to.
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