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“It was my first bomb; I hope it will be the last,” Vodopivec told the AP by phone from Mogadishu. He said the blast happened when the plane was at around 11,000 feet (3,350 meters) and still climbing to its cruising altitude of 30,000 feet.
“It would have been much worse if we were higher,” he added.
Thank Dog for lame-ass rookies.
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Well, that settles it - Mogadishu is now off my list of potential vacation destinations.
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They were VERY lucky they were only at 11,000 ft. You don’t need oxygen at that altitude, it’s not so cold, and the degree of decompression is relatively small. Wow.
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Dis-continuing the chartered Black-Hawk service really killed it for me.
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Yelp and Trip Advisor say the food is terrible there.
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But does the film festival make up for it?
I have to say, if the bomb was on the guy who is now missing, meaning all he effectively accomplished was a horrifying suicide consisting of an 11,000 foot drop while maimed and burned by his own explosives, then that’s some funny ass shit right there. It’s only February and that might qualify for top Darwin Award of the year. Hard to beat it at least…
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At altitude low O2 is a problem (hence the drop-down masks), and cold is a problem. But decompression? Not so much. The change from sea level to 30k feet is from about 14 psi to about 4 psi. That’s a change of about ⅔ of an atmosphere, roughly equivalent to going from 20 feet under water to the surface. People do that all the time without ill effect.
Remember, too, that highly-conditioned athletes climb Everest (29k feet) on a regular basis — without supplemental O2.
And if you have decompression of your airplane at 30,000 feet, what do you do? Put on your O2 mask and descend.
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