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The BBC is not so keen on the idea of armed sky marshalls on British planes, apparently set to take to the skies with immediate effect:
Frank Taylor, a senior lecturer in air safety, says a bullet destroying an aircraft window in real life would have dire consequences for nearby passengers, as dramatised in Goldfinger.
As air rushes out to equalise the “pressure differential” between inside and out, it can reach the speed of sound and pick up objects and people.
“It’s not all fiction. If an airliner’s window was shattered, the person sitting beside it would either go out the hole or plug it - which would not be comfortable.”
Worried? Perhaps we should be:
the UK’s armed police officers - from whose ranks Mr Darling’s sky marshals are reportedly drawn - do not have an unblemished record of marksmanship. More than half of the bullets they fire in the line of duty miss their target.
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May 20th, 2003 at 3:18 pm
I was on the plane they talked about that decompressed. Funnily enough, they didn’t mention at the time that the pilot had conked out. The co-pilot took the plane into a very steep descent, the air masks popped down and we got the kid gloves treatment at Gatwick.