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Man nearly sucked out of plane at 20,000 feet

king5.com — "An Idaho man is counting his lucky stars after he was nearly sucked out of a plane 20,000 feet in the air. Chris Fogg was on a Seattle-bound flight from Twin Falls when the window by his seat broke shortly after takeoff. Fogg's head and arm were immediately sucked out of the aircraft."

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  • OJXs, on 10/11/2007, -5/+155We have clearance Clarence.
    • DeskFlyer, on 10/11/2007, -5/+139Roger, Roger.
      • kosmoX, on 10/11/2007, -3/+34You get two diggs, because your icon IS an airplane...
        • Markpdotcom, on 10/11/2007, -9/+3You can give people two diggs on the new comment system? I thought that was disabled now?
        • mrASSMAN, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7And his name is "deskflyer"
      • Elephant789, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3Made in the usa, no dought.
        • Markpdotcom, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14Dought? Doughnuts? Oh, DOUBT! Was your spelling made in the USA?

          Muhahahahahahaa! ;)
        • mrASSMAN, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Yep we're not suffering from a drought at the moment here in Seattle.
    • Digitalfilm43, on 10/11/2007, -2/+111What's your vector, Victor?
    • HunterTV, on 10/11/2007, -3/+92"You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This man has to be gotten to a hospital."

      "A hospital? What is it?"

      "It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now."
    • Dested, on 10/11/2007, -1/+35I picked a bad day to stop taking methamphetamines...
    • cepher, on 10/11/2007, -21/+3Don't call me Shirley.
      "I have a drinking problem"
      The ***** hit the fan.
      • sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -2/+23Learn to be a Digg Ninja: know when enough is enough, stealthily awaiting for a more opportune moment to strike.
    • DarkPrincess74, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17"Get me someone who won't crack under pressure." "How about Mister Rogers?"
    • gromnie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16So, you see, both Dunn and I were under Oveur, even though I was under Dunn.
    • DangerCollie, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19Excuse me, stewardess, I speak jive.
    • mrwhitethc, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue.
    • jasdf, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2So much for the Mythbusters being even remotely reliable....didn't they bust this?
      • shark615, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Still is busted did you see the size of the window? The fact that he was sucked out fully through the small aperature prooves there point
    • antiorblkflag9, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8Surely you can't be serious
      I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.
  • n4cr2k, on 10/11/2007, -1/+29Nightmare at 20,000 Feet?
    • coreyb, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12Gremlims on the wing I suspect...
    • irvin666, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0PWEI reference?
    • VelvetoneFusion, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2*sigh* Thanks a lot, I had sucessfully blocked the episode from memory.
      No sleep for me tonight...
    • celkin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Snakes?
  • tantheman67, on 10/11/2007, -16/+99That flight SUCKED! Sorry had to!
    • sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -3/+20No you didn't.
    • 0ceanic, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3eh
      the cabin air "pushed" him out
      but yeah good pun.
      • xister, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5So almost all the Fogg was aired out of the plane?
      • mrASSMAN, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3OK yeah you might think that due to the mythbusters episode.. but they didn't test the theory very well at all. The truth is that the rushing air from outside the cabin creates a vacuum that effectively "sucks" with great force through the opening until the pressure is equalized somewhat. But ultra-low pressure is created within the cabin due to the vacuum effect as well. As a result, such as what happened in this situation, once he got partially sucked out, his body formed a barrier between the high-pressure area of the fast-moving air and the very low pressure area within the plane.

        Anyway, you're wrong.
  • Digitalfilm43, on 10/11/2007, -3/+84"Ladies and gentleman, this is your stewardess speaking. We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused. This is due to periodic air pockets we encountered. There's no reason to be alarmed and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight. By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?"
    • ajchavar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14"its a good thing he doesnt know how much i hat his guts"
      "he says its a good thing you dont know how much he hates your guts"
  • wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -19/+4Not nearly as entertaining. *Goes back to laboriously killing kittens*
    • wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1Not sadistic enough? Well, I'll try harder next time.
  • sjbdallas, on 10/11/2007, -1/+38Wouldn't it be BLOWN out? Or is that only in space? I figured it was the same concept though: high pressure blown to low pressure.
    • Al3x, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I was thinking the exact same thing. High pressure inside plane...low pressure at high altitude...
      • hh1000, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1The article says the plane lost cabin pressure ... so it would be pushed out. It's depressing that the people who write news articles can't even get such a basic thing right ... what does that mean about the Associated Press' other news stories?
    • Gophergreg, on 10/11/2007, -10/+5I got blown out in a plane once. Wait, are we talking about the same thing?
    • jmp478, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Didn't the Mythbusters do this? Buster's arm and the seat were the only things able to fit through the window.
      • eggo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6They tested on the ground, and they were only testing the effects of the pressure from inside the plane. At speed, Bernoulli's principle would try to pull you into the airflow.

        And, real people are much squishier than the crash test dummy they use.
      • mrASSMAN, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Yeah the mythbusters totally failed at that experiment. I was literally yelling at my TV as I was watching it. But hey, sometimes they get it right, and sometimes they get it totally and utterly wrong.
      • shark615, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Did you guys read the article? Only his head and arm was sucked/pushed/blown whatever out. Sort of prooves their point...
        • ScoutzMom, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Keep reading--the article also says that he held onto the inside wall of the plane with his other arm. THAT is what kept him from being blown/sucked all the way out of the airplane.
    • Cable, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/M_IMAGE.11350fb5491.93.88.fa.d0.3322c402.jpg
      The window looks slightly larger than a normal jet window
    • ygrof, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5You could phrase it either way. The higher cabin pressure is blowing the air out. The lower atmospheric pressure is sucking the air out.
    • knobtwiddler, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4glass half empty/half full
    • Sophistifunk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1If we're going to have this argument every time somebody says "sucked out" then we need to throw out the word sucked. It's only ever a pressure difference, high on one side, low on the other. The fluid moves from high to low pressure to even it out.
      • fuegosecret, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Oh? Does the dirt on your floor just blow into your vacuum cleaner? Does the lint in your dryer just blow into the lint screen? No... the vacuum cleaner sucks the dirt, the dryer sucks lint into the lint screen, and you are blown out of an airplane and not sucked into the atmosphere.

        There's another thread below this claiming the same fallacious crap, that its 2 sides of the same coin, but its not. Here's a little thought experiment. Guy in a space pod. In space. He opens the door and is blown out into space. He's blown out because of the pressure of his pod atmosphere escaping. Its not the lack of atmosphere surrounding the pod that sucks him, because its not low atmosphere, but NO atmosphere. (i.e. vacuum = no atmosphere). So if he were to be sucked out, there'd be nothing sucking him out... because that's what the vacuum is... nothing. So he is blown out. He is NOT sucked out.
        • Misogyny, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1You are wrong. Sorry.
        • buddyfarr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2problem with your theory is that you are comparing apples to oranges here. space = no atmosphere. flying in an airplane = atmosphere. there is sucking because of the speed of the plane flying through the ATMOSPHERE. the speed of the air going by the outside of the window creates the suction. here's a little "thought experiment" that would be a little closer to the story then your space exploration crap. drive down the highway at 70mph with your window down. now hold a piece of paper by the window and let it go. the pressure inside the car is not BLOWING it out the window now is it?
      • buddyfarr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2whoops wrong thread.
    • Tippis, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3The question is, did he get blown out by the pressure drop, or sucked out by the airflow outside the cabin? ...or a combination of both?
      • nodonoug, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Well, the airflow amounts to a larger pressure differential....so the two are really the same phenomenon.
  • AegisGFX, on 10/11/2007, -1/+39Theres a man on the wing of this plaaaannnneee.........
  • heaintheavy, on 10/11/2007, -0/+41I just want to tell you both good luck. We're all counting on you.
  • ScrumFritter, on 10/11/2007, -6/+16Those little windows on planes... those little plastic inner layers, the ones that seem so loose in the frame... they scare the Holy ***** out of me for this very reason, :p, ever since I was small. I'd always love staring out the window, but I never pressed mt face up against it... because it might ***** break and suck me out of it. O_O Good to know I was justified in being a wuss all these years!
    • dorkino, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13Nothing would happen if you broke the little plastic piece of the window. There's a glass panel behind it that is secured to the body of the plane.
  • Wonkanobi, on 10/11/2007, -9/+159Snakes or it didn't happen
  • codyman, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9my legal-action / going to be settled out of court senses have been alerted....
    • perral1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8He's going to sue his own family's company? That doesn't seem too smart...
      • Pake, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Aye, not too smart, but never underestimate human stupidity!
  • zyklon, on 10/11/2007, -8/+2I blame the snakes.
  • GreyICE, on 10/11/2007, -11/+5You can't be sucked out the window of a plane. Its physically impossible. The holes are specifically designed to be too small to fit out. Your shoulders and waist can't get through. Head, arm, even leg, probably, but you can never get sucked out.

    He probably had a strong sucking sensation, and an incredible fear of falling out, and it certainly wasn't pleasant, but you can't get sucked through. That's why they make the windows that small.
    • sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Actually they make the windows that small because if they were any larger they would compromise the integrity of the plane. An airplane known as the comet used to fall out of the sky on routine flights. It took them a number of accidents before they learned the windows were the culprit.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet
    • Buckiller, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2If the hole gets any bigger? Which would happen if the pressure went from being really high to really low really fast.
    • reconbot, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12You look at that photo in the story? You could fit a grown man though that easily. This was a medical transport plane not a passenger jet.
    • cankillar, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11Then I guess he got ELEVEN STAPLES IN HIS HEAD FOR NOTHING, BECAUSE THERE WAS NO WAY THIS COULD HAVE HAPPENED.
      • GreyICE, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1um, his head could go out the window. The rest of his body couldn't follow. Sorry, no go. But hey, reading comprehension and all that.
    • bikeidaho, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I actually got to see this plane sitting on the tarmac the other day here in Boise. The window was blown out and it was big enough for a man's shoulders to fit through. This man was nearly the same size as the window resulting in the same air flow squeezing around him, almost pushing him out of the window. The pilot had to do an emergency nose dive in order to help equalize the pressures. This is some crazy stuff, but crazier things have happened.
      • FastZ, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Mythbusters proved this theory "busted", it's not physically possible for someone to get "sucked" out of a plane like that. Maybe if the entire side of the plane ripped off and he accidently leaned over too far and fell, but not just because the window failed at keeping a seal.
        • drakenlot, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Actually, Mythbusters only tested it at the ground and at a stand-still. They haven't revisited it since it's impossible for them to run the tests on a moving plane 20,000 feet in the air, where it's very different from the ground.
  • nbx909, on 10/11/2007, -1/+23shortly after take off and at 20,000 feet already? I want one of those planes!

    • jasdf, on 10/11/2007, -0/+220,000 feet only takes 7-10 minutes in most commercial planes. Now in a Piper Meridian I'm sure it took quite a bit longer.
  • MrKrinkleDude, on 10/11/2007, -5/+4Oh goodie, more media failing to do research. Sucked? No. Blown! Cabin pressure is higher than the lower pressure high altitude.
    • Tallon29, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4The cabin pressure blows him out. The atmospheric pressure sucks him out. No research necessary, it's just two different points of view.
  • Jedimind66, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2explosive decompression
  • mikefitz2, on 10/11/2007, -15/+5HAHAHA HE WAS A MALE NURSE
    • santaliqueur, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18Most (male) nurses I know make over $100k/year. Much more than you make posting to Digg from your Mom's basement.
    • danakin, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4And what, praytell, do you do for a living?
    • RobNus, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1it was just a joke! everyone relax!
    • mikefitz2, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11. Male nurses' do not make 100k per year
      2. It was a joke
      3. I don't work I live with my parents and eat for free
      4. My parents pay 100% college fees
  • Jedimind66, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1Explosive decompression.
  • stonebear, on 10/11/2007, -4/+24I thought it was going to be about someone joining the mile high club through fellatio.
  • HumanRecall, on 10/11/2007, -20/+14MYTH BUSTERS broke this MYTH -dugg down !

    Video: Door of plane carrying 3 NFL players blows open at 6,000 feet
    http://hotair.com/archives/2007/05/20/video-door-of-plane-carrying-3-nfl-players-blows-open-at-6000-feet/

    http://kwc.org/mythbusters/2004/01/mythbusters_explosive_decompre.html
    A bullet can cause explosive decompression in an airplane: busted-people getting sucked out -Busted

    nuff said
    • FrozenGonad, on 10/11/2007, -8/+3That's exactly what I was thinking.. Wasn't this busted?
      • oirvine, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Mythbusters got it wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.
        • BigJ27, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Mythbusters got the same exact result, how is that getting it wrong?
      • dorkino, on 10/11/2007, -0/+12From the article linked above:

        3) Blowing out the window of an airplane. Result: Buster's arm was sucked through the opening, and probably would have dismembered a real human being. However, the hole did not expand, and the other passengers probably would have been fine.

        Isn't that mostly what happened? The one guy was sucked thru the window, while everyone else (the patient, pilot) was fine. He wasn't even dismembered, although he was cut up pretty good.
    • illiki23, on 10/11/2007, -8/+14the mythbusters are a disgrace to the scientific method. they are very sloppy and are a good example of how not to approach science. every time they "absolutely" bust something without looking at or controlling all the factors or after only one or two tries makes me cringe. its really funny when they approach a situation which has been known to rarely ever happen, or has only happened once or twice by freak accident, and then bust it when they themselves cannot get it to happen in their workshop.
      • dragon76, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2It's good TV but junk science. When they can;' get something to work by the rules of the "myth" they break the rules then say the myth is "busted" or in the case where they set up the test really shoddily and can't even get the situation RIGHT, they sometimes announce the myth as true because they think it might work if they'd not been such bad "scientists".
        • RobNus, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3they are testing the myths within the realms of feasibility. they cant go and blow a window out of a flying plane, for instance, without crashing and endangering lots of people. maybe the conditions of some of their experiments are not ideal, but then again, the show is sposed to be fun. dont take it so seriously.
      • danconia, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Awww man, you guys are killing my childhood. DREAM-KILLERS!
    • IcerC, on 10/11/2007, -4/+2Thank you, someone here says it. Digg loves MB's.... I stand behind you illiki23.
    • Wacer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2At first, when there is explosive decompression, there will be a pressure sucking things out. As the pressure stabilizes, having you arms and head out the window at 150 MPH is enough friction and turbulence to pull things out but the sucking out is not created by a pressure difference such as space.
    • econojon, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1Well I guess MB just got pwned, huh?
    • RoyHobbs, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1That plane wasn't pressurized genius.
      • Innatech, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Yes it was, genius. Read the article. The pilot dived steeply when he noticed cabin pressure had been lost. Even the altitude in the title should have been enough to tell you it was pressurized--genius.

        Go home.
        • Innatech, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2 OIC--RoyHobbs means the MB plane. They tried to pressurize it, but as usual it was a half-assed effort at best. They attached giant external blowers to the fuselage and attempted to simulate the same kind of pressure differential you'd encounter in flight.
  • cyborg, on 10/11/2007, -6/+13Actually, he wasn't sucked out at all, he was blown out because the cabin is pressurized, the pressure from the cabin began to blow him out of the window instead of sucking him out.
    • Nougat, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6Blow, suck, it's all relative.
    • HumanRecall, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0Regardless the point is a cabin will not depressize enough to have someone sent flying out of the craft suck or blow !
    • andytheidiot, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I doubt the difference mattered to the guy that was partially out of the plane!
    • Osjpr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Actually it is a sucking effect. His fat ass was forcibly pulled in the direction of outside. He was not blown and lifted off the seat by a wave of uplifting air
  • OpenFuture, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4The cabin pressure most likely caused a preexisting tiny crack in the window to become more severe and become a larger crack and milliseconds later the rupture of the entire window.
  • smurf22, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4I always liked the windows seats, but now im not, if we live in fear the terrorist win.
    • Wacer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Did you even look at the article and see the size of the window? It's not one of those cheesy little oval windows on the commercial airlines.
  • Buckiller, on 10/11/2007, -6/+9Saw this on Mythbusters... The only way to get blown out is for you to be right next to the window when it happens... and even then its likely only your arm and head will get blown out. (might knock you out I suppose... but the resulting hole would still be too small)
    • ladypoetess, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Um... that's exactly what happened. The guy was sitting next to the window when it broke (they have not yet determined why it broke) and his head and arm were pulled out. He had a headset on that kept him from being knocked out, though if he had, this particular hole would have been of sufficient size, based on the picture, for him to be pulled through it.
    • unusualbob, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1This window was about 2.5 times larger than the ones used in mythbusters. The airflow was much greater and he could fit thru the window much easier.
  • bsdsolomon, on 10/11/2007, -10/+2Didn't Mythbusters dis-prove this?
    • mrASSMAN, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3There's a reason that episode made so many people angry.
  • heiroglyph, on 10/11/2007, -9/+15Didn't he know that MythBusters disproved this a few seasons ago?
    • unusualbob, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1this was a much bigger window, RTFA
  • tehbored, on 10/11/2007, -9/+2There's no way he could have actually been sucked out unless he was REALLY skinny. Like the above comment says, this was disproved on Mythbusters.
    • nodonoug, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5RTFA

      it's a non-standard window...gigantic hole
  • VinceIP, on 10/11/2007, -11/+19im in ur planez flyin out ur windows
    • Wacer, on 10/11/2007, -4/+4For god sake will you people drop that damn joke! It is older than the mold growing on them bottom of your feet!
      • MarkOfTheDead, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1vince's was good and yours just made me vurp.
  • av8rix, on 10/11/2007, -4/+7I live near the plane and have seen it. Yes, you can fit through the window. It is not a commercial plane.
    • Radionesiac, on 10/11/2007, -3/+9what, is "The Plane" some kind of local landmark?
      • ScottMaximus1, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3holy ***** maaaaaaaan
      • Wacer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2For ***** sake, look at the article and see the picture of the window. Does it look like the windows on a commercial airliner or are you that damn blind. Quit sniffing so much glue.
    • FastZ, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5So you guys (you and the plane) are like neighbors huh? What does the plane do on weekends? Does it have any children? What's it's wife look like?
    • mz00m, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol.
  • chevykid389, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1As said by tehbored this was indeed disproved by mythbusters
  • vincecate, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2
    From the early days of jets we have known that square windows are a bad idea.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Comet
  • Stano, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1And I get jerked around for not wanting to fly. At that altitude isn't frostbite pretty quick?
  • fak3r, on 10/11/2007, -6/+5(obligatory) That sucks.
  • venir, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25For all of you people that aren't reading the article and looking at the picture of the window: THIS IS NOT A PASSENGER PLANE BUT A PATIENT TRANSPORT. You could easily get sucked through a hole the size of the window in the picture. Mythbusters may have disproved it for a commercial airliner but this one is different.
    • HumanRecall, on 10/11/2007, -11/+0WTF does it matter ? Myth Busters did the cabin door windos as well and thats huge ! I don't care if it's a flying milk carton it isn't going to suck/blow you out of the planei
      • ScottMaximus1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10You should go tell the AP that.

        IM SORRY ASSOCIATED PRESS THE MYTHBUSTERS SAID IT CANT HAPPEN SO PRUFF
  • Aereo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Dugg for how ironic it is that the user submitting this has an icon of an airplane.
    • fak3r, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3That's just plain cool.
    • laurarena, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3not really, he probably just submits stories about plains.
      • nodonoug, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5what're you saying? that this guy loves stories about the U.S. midwest?
    • melonhedd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2That's not irony.
      • Eliza101, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Why can't anyone understand the difference between irony and coincidence? It's so damn frustrating.

        Oh, and while we're at it, it's probably not even a coincidence. It's probably because the guy likes planes, came across this story, and submitted it.
  • fak3r, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5(obligatory - no fixed due to above comments) That blows.
  • metsrule3186, on 10/11/2007, -2/+1Is the FAA really not sure what happened, or are they just trying to cover up the large magnetic disturbance that occurred just as the window blew out.
  • Protector, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5All these comments and no one said a thing about "Ada-Boi Critical Care"? WTH? Did Avril create a medical center?
    • zudpucker, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2It's a company out of Boise, Idaho in Ada County. Not to cryptic.
      • Protector, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Never said it was cryptic, but you run with it. Whatever gets you through the night.
  • MozzieTS, on 10/11/2007, -4/+3for all the mythbuster idiots.

    Mythbusters PROVED this result. That you would get sucked through but the plan wouldn't blow apart.
    • RyeBrye, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2WTF? Unless they later "revisited" that Myth... Mythbusters claimed you wouldn't get sucked out. Go watch your reruns.
      • Wacer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Stick half you body out of a window while you are traveling at 150MPH and what the hell happens to you. If you believe that Myth Busters is the absolute truth and they factored in everything than you are truly an idiot.
      • Wacer, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Stick half you body out of a window while you are traveling at 150MPH and what the hell happens to you. If you believe that Myth Busters is the absolute truth and they factored in everything than you are truly an idiot.
  • rushiku, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11FTA: " Though Fogg, who has been a flight nurse and EMT since 1983, returned to work the day after the accident, he hasn't flown since."

    If you nearly get sucked out of a window at 20,000 ft, get a piece of your arm ripped off, receive 11 stitches AND return to work the next day...you just might be a workaholic.
    • unusualbob, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1...or you dont get workers comp
    • MarkOfTheDead, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1nurses don't f around.
    • Shandooga, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Statistically, he's uber-unlikely to ever have another incident in the air. Ironically, he'd probably be much safer up there now that he won't go.
  • supermanred, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Big deal, so he wanted to ride with his head and arm out the window. My dog does that all the time in the convertible.

    Seriously, big window man he couldve been toast... Wouldve not been as bad on a commerical jet liner, though having your arm and head blown out a small hole at a high velocity (big pressure difference) can cause you to break your arm, or damage your head. And apparently your head is a really really important part of your body.

    • Shandooga, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1First time a super-sized American ass ever saved a life.
  • spargett, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Oh my god, that is so *****.

    Good thing he was bleeding enough to draw attention away from the giant brown stain in his pants.
  • SenorCardgage74, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2There isnt a court big enough to hold all the people that I would sue.
    Id be so ***** terrified Id find a way to sue the Wright Brothers even.
    Posthumously anyway.
    • laurarena, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3the business is owned by his family..
  • linkdragon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4If I ever have to sit near someone who is acting somewhat obnoxious or annoying on the plane, I'll let them take the window seat.
  • uptown, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Any chance the in-flight movie was Eraser?
  • SuperKaioken, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3The Mythbusters do not prove all situations. Like it was stated earlier, this window is huge! looks like 3x3 window. He would have easily been blown out.
  • weebit, on 10/11/2007, -1/+220,000 leagues above the sea, man almost becomes a hunk of meat on pavement below. film at 11.
  • LavaHot, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't he blown out, as opposed to being sucked out?
    • RobNus, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0same difference. the pressure was moving from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure. if you like, the air inside the plane, while escaping, pulled him out. or pushed him out. its all the same.
    • Shandooga, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Which would be worse? Either way, it seems like it would suck to be in that seat --so to speak.
  • prthealien, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4I will never remove my seatbelt in mid-flight again. Ever.
  • TechnoRabbit, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2lol I live in Twin Falls :D
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