Spider Crack in Plane Window: Rapid Decompression
1/22/202646 min
An Air Force captain, George Burk, boards a plane bound for a base in Washington State. It’s a Monday morning like any other. Or at least, it should be. A structural failure will lead to a horror scenario in the sky. As the windows are blown out, this aluminium tube will hurtle towards the earth at over 250 miles an hour. By the time George and his colleagues have gathered their senses, it will already be too late…
A Noiser podcast production. Hosted by John Hopkins.
Written by Joe Viner | Produced by Ed...
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It's Monday, May the 4th, 1970, about 8:25 in the morning. Heavy fog mantles the sky above Sonoma County, California. Sharp, rainy squalls cut through the cloud like arrow showers, falling on the rolling hills and fields, the oak forests, and cattle pastures. Two and a half thousand feet up, a US military training aircraft struggles to climb above the dense gray cloud. Water droplets bead on the cockpit windows as the plane gains altitude, forcing its way up through layers of soaking mist. Designed in the 1940s and modeled on early airliners, the Convair T-29 is a bulky twin-engined workhorse, built mainly for radar and navigation training. Now, after three decades of service, the fleet is showing its age.