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2010-02-08 -Obits-

Aircraft landing gear stowaway does it wrong

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Posted by gromky 2010-02-08 12:20|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 At 30,000 feet you will die from lack of oxygen before the hypothermia gets you. It's just so cold you won't notice you are dying until you ARE dead (OK, stretching things a bit). Landing gear compartments are NOT pressurized.

There are worse ways to go.

Posted by tipover 2010-02-08 14:06|| 2010-02-08 14:06|| Front Page Top

#2 The police were investigating the case both as an accident and as a possible crime. Put him in zeh koolar.......

Posted by armyguy 2010-02-08 14:45|| 2010-02-08 14:45|| Front Page Top

#3 One wonders how long he has been up there.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-02-08 14:57|| 2010-02-08 14:57|| Front Page Top

#4 ...number of days before this is incorporated into another episode of CSI:NY?

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-02-08 16:38|| 2010-02-08 16:38|| Front Page Top

#5 But I thought the closer to the sun, the hotter it would be. And if they really cared, they should put emergency oxygen masks in those compartments - and heaters.
- dead guy

Posted by Goober Goobelopolous 2010-02-08 16:40|| 2010-02-08 16:40|| Front Page Top

#6 There actually was a case of a guy who stowed away in the wheelwell of a jetliner from Fiji. His body temperature was in the 80's when he arrived, and he was covered with grease (from the wheels, I guess). He survived and was shipped back to Fiji.

It was on Discovery Health, on (I think) "Untold Stories of the ER." It was pretty interesting watching what they did to re-warm him.

But yeah, his case was unusual - most of them wake up dead.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-02-08 18:41|| 2010-02-08 18:41|| Front Page Top

#7 most of them wake up dead.

I just hate it when that happens to me, it screws up your whole week.

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-02-08 18:56|| 2010-02-08 18:56|| Front Page Top

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