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"Ann Romney’s plane was grounded Friday after the main cabin filled with smoke. The small electrical fire caused no injuries, but apparently did cause the Presidential candidate to forget the dangers of altitude.
“When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly,” he told the LA Times. “And you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem.”
Air crafts do not open windows because the cabins are pressurized to fly safely at an altitude of tens of thousand feet. Opening a window in an airplane would seriously sicken the passengers and crew. "
"because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem." - Romney
That doesn't say "roll them down" does it? What he is saying is, why don't airplane windows come out in AN EMERGENCY! I think it's a good question, why don't they?
"Ann Romney’s plane was grounded Friday after the main cabin filled with smoke. The small electrical fire caused no injuries, but apparently did cause the Presidential candidate to forget the dangers of altitude.
“When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly,” he told the LA Times. “And you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem.”
Air crafts do not open windows because the cabins are pressurized to fly safely at an altitude of tens of thousand feet. Opening a window in an airplane would seriously sicken the passengers and crew. "
This is what he said:
"Ann Romney’s plane was grounded Friday after the main cabin filled with smoke. The small electrical fire caused no injuries, but apparently did cause the Presidential candidate to forget the dangers of altitude.
“When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly,” he told the LA Times. “And you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem.”
Notice the closed quote at the end.
The reporter added:
Air crafts do not open windows because the cabins are pressurized to fly safely at an altitude of tens of thousand feet. Opening a window in an airplane would seriously sicken the passengers and crew.
That doesn't say "roll them down" does it? What he is saying is, why don't airplane windows come out in AN EMERGENCY! I think it's a good question, why don't they?
Because adding weak spots to a pressurized cabin is likely to cause more problems than it solves. Or because getting a 200 MPH+ draft of fresh, oxygen-rich air through the cabin is just the thing to turn a smoldering electrical fire into a good-sized conflagration.
People who design and approve aircraft are very, very smart and drawing on close to a century's worth of hard-won experience. Cabin pressurization is a pretty damn complex setup as it is, and thankfully, situations where a couple of nice big holes in the fuselage would improve things are few and far between.
Because adding weak spots to a pressurized cabin is likely to cause more problems than it solves. Or because getting a 200 MPH+ draft of fresh, oxygen-rich air through the cabin is just the thing to turn a smoldering electrical fire into a good-sized conflagration.
People who design and approve aircraft are very, very smart and drawing on close to a century's worth of hard-won experience. Cabin pressurization is a pretty damn complex setup as it is, and thankfully, situations where a couple of nice big holes in the fuselage would improve things are few and far between.
Yeah ok, think with your head. I don't think he was talking about opening them while in flight!
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