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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (246259)	8/16/2005 6:33:30 PM
From: neolib	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573004

A while back there was a golfer (?) flying in a small private jet over the USA that suffered the same fate. Rapid decompression (meteor?) at 40K+ feet. Aviation Week had an article afterwards and they stated that many pilots tested by the military under similar conditions could not react fast enough to save their lives. It is not just the loss of oxygen, but also the rapid decompression affects judgement, and the actual time available to recover was IIRC well less than 30 secs, more like 15 secs. Why it is so short, given that one can exhale and not breath for longer than that, I'm not sure. Anyway, the golfer and all onboard were dead and frozen. Plane flew a long ways on autopilot before crashing in Montana IIRC.