man catches fire and then is sucked out hole in airplane

[davew]

A rather odd situation - was it an underwear bomb?

https://www.yahoo.com/travel/passeng...172542766.html

[OntheRail]

It's a case of explosive diarrhea. Stay away from the Falafels.

If it was a bomb thank God the bomber was the only one to go... BOOM!

[tucker6]

Wife of terrorist: "Bad day at the office honey?"

Terrorist: "Just a little. First, my underwear didn't explode properly, and instead of blowing up the plane, I caught on fire and only blew a small hole in the side of the plane. If that wasn't bad enough, I wasn't wearing my seat belt like they always tell you to do, and I got sucked out of the hole I made at 14000 feet without a parachute. On the bright side, I missed getting sucked into the engine."

Think Wyle E Coyote

[Marshall Bennett]

Turkish Airlines flight crashed in 1974 killing all 346 on board. A faulty cargo door on the DC-10 blew off due to pressure when the plane climbed through 10,000 ft. causing a sudden depressurization in the cargo hold. This in effect caused two rows of seats with passengers to be deposited through a huge hole in the belly and fall into a farm field below. The remainder of the passengers and plane dove into a forest in France and disintegrated.

[Rookies]

The real question to be asked is:

Who in their right mind, flys into/ out of Somalia?

CNN reported that NO planes (even Somalian ones) ever stay on the tarmac overnight. And- it is so horribly insecure security wise, that passengers used to be tossed a bullet proof vest before disembarking, so ISIS/Al Q snipers didn't knock them off!

[tucker6]

Originally Posted by Marshall Bennett

Turkish Airlines flight crashed in 1974 killing all 346 on board. A faulty cargo door on the DC-10 blew off due to pressure when the plane climbed through 10,000 ft. causing a sudden depressurization in the cargo hold. This in effect caused two rows of seats with passengers to be deposited through a huge hole in the belly and fall into a farm field below. The remainder of the passengers and plane dove into a forest in France and disintegrated.

sounds like negligence by the airline and poor piloting to me. Mechanically unsound plane and the pilots couldn't deal with a situation that even in 1974 was not insurmountable.

[Hoofless_Wonder]

It was an older guy in his 60s who was sucked out of the hole and died. I wouldn't think he'd be the bomber, but he may have had a bomb placed by someone else in his carry on bag, or perhaps the carry on bag of the person sitting behind him.

Very lucky the whole plane wasn't lost....

[davew]

The guy was supposed to be on a Turkish Airlines flight that got cancelled. A group from this cancellation got put on a Daallo Airlines flight.

http://news.yahoo.com/somalia-plane-...100554606.html

[Hoofless_Wonder]

They're still calling him the "suicide" bomber, and the bomb was in a laptop. A suicide bomber in his early 60s?

Wonder if he just had the battery explode....

[OntheRail]

Originally Posted by Hoofless_Wonder

They're still calling him the "suicide" bomber, and the bomb was in a laptop. A suicide bomber in his early 60s?

Wonder if he just had the battery explode....

Why not 60 is the new 40... he had a bottle of Viagra and visions of 72 virgins. Have to wonder though... does he really qualify as a suicide bomber when he took not one other with him.

[Marshall Bennett]

Originally Posted by tucker6

sounds like negligence by the airline and poor piloting to me. Mechanically unsound plane and the pilots couldn't deal with a situation that even in 1974 was not insurmountable.

There was fix package issued by McDonald Douglas after a similar mishap here stateside in which the door blew off and the plane landed safely. Turkish Airlines didn't install them in their 3 DC-10's.
As for the pilot, due to the excessive cabin load all the hydraulic lines were severed during decompression and he had no control features. Had he been at a much higher altitude he perhaps could have used his engines alone to fly as these controls still worked. He actually had the plane nearly level, but ran out of airspace.

[NorCalGreg]

Originally Posted by OntheRail

Why not 60 is the new 40... he had a bottle of Viagra and visions of 72 virgins. Have to wonder though... does he really qualify as a suicide bomber when he took not one other with him.

Gallows humor is so much funnier when at the expense of a hapless terrorist, who "F'ed" up and killed himself. Your 2 posts on this thread, and tucker's, had me laughing and spitting up coffee

[tucker6]

Originally Posted by Hoofless_Wonder

They're still calling him the "suicide" bomber, and the bomb was in a laptop. A suicide bomber in his early 60s?

Wonder if he just had the battery explode....

I don't believe it is possible that a laptop battery could produce an "explosion" that takes out a plane without outside assistance (additional bomb material inside the laptop). I looked online and battery "explosions" usually induce a fire and at most destruction of the internals in a laptop.

[Dave Schwartz]

There was fix package issued by McDonald Douglas after a similar mishap here stateside in which the door blew off and the plane landed safely. Turkish Airlines didn't install them in their 3 DC-10's.

Th hole is a couple of rows away from the door.

[Marshall Bennett]

Originally Posted by Dave Schwartz

Th hole is a couple of rows away from the door.

This was a different airliner 40 years ago.