• Ramune@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The Alaska door plug incident didn’t have casualties only because it just so happened nobody was sitting in the two seats directly adjacent to the door plug.

    Edit: the point isn’t to dispute whether somebody would have died or not, but to not let a stroke of luck downplay the severity of the actual issue

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      7 months ago

      Seatbelts are also a thing, assuming you actually follow the safety recommendations.

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        7 months ago

        We are not talking fatalities, we are talking casualties. You cannot convince me that an explosive decompression at 16k feet won’t cause serious injury at the least.