The news that a pilot in China was almost sucked out of a broken windscreen follows the death of a passenger sucked out of a plane window in the US. So how worried should we be?To lose one passenger through a plane window, as in the tragic case last month of Jennifer Riordan, who died when she was half sucked out of a window on a Southwest Airlines flight from New York to Dallas, is disconcerting. When something similar happens to a pilot, “sucked halfway out” of a broken cockpit window on a passenger flight in China, as did this week, you start to wonder whether storylines common in airline dramas are becoming a little too frequent in real life. Related: Airline pilot ‘sucked halfway out’ when cockpit windshield broke Continue reading…
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