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Why can a passenger be pulled out of the airplane window

Tuesday at the plane Southwest Airlinesoperating flight No. 1380 from New York to Dallas, the left engine exploded in the air at an altitude of about 10 thousands of meters, its fragments damaged the body of the aircraft, which led to depressurization of the cabin. Splinters from the explosion smashed the porthole - and the woman sitting next to him, Jennifer Riordan, partially stretched out with a stream of air, writes The Washington Post.

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The plane made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport.

Riordan, Vice President of the Bank Wells Fargo and a mother of two children, later died from her injuries in a hospital in Philadelphia. Seven other passengers were injured. Federal officials said Riordan’s death was the first such death since 2009.

The Philadelphia Department of Health reported that a woman died from a severe injury to the head, neck, and torso.

It is noted that such incidents, when the passenger pulls out through the porthole, there are, but extremely rare. For example, in 1988, the flight attendant Aloha Airlines died after being pulled through a hole on the roof of an airplane during a flight to Honolulu from Hilo, Hawaii.

The reason that people are seriously injured in such incidents is pressure, which depends on the location of the aircraft. Atmospheric pressure above sea level is about pounds per square inch, said Thomas Anthony, director of aviation safety at the University of Southern California. But at the cruising altitude of an aircraft around 14,7 thousand feet, it drops to about 33 pounds per square inch. That is why the higher you go, the harder it is to breathe. That is why climbers, climbing Everest, take with them oxygen.

Aircraft cabins are under pressure to make passengers feel comfortable in the cabin when flying at high altitude, explained Jim Gregory, a professor of aviation technology and director of the Aerospace Research Center at Ohio State University.

According to him, if there were no pressure, then each passenger would suffer from hypoxia (a condition in which the human body does not receive enough oxygen).

Gregory said the pressure level inside the cabin Southwest was probably about pounds per square inch 11, compared to pounds per square inch outside 4. The difference in pressure can be up to 7 psi. This means that each of the windows of the aircraft was acting about 600 pounds, so if a depressurization occurs, the passenger may be pulled into the hole.

The expert says that although such incidents occur very rarely, they are a reminder that passengers should be attentive to safe flight instructions, including being wearing a seatbelt.

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