KOIN news - Learjet crash (Payne Stewart death) - 1999-10-25
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[0:01] uh sleepiness, dizziness. Uh this is
[0:04] what happens when your your brain is
[0:05] starved from from oxygen.
[0:07] >> Now, we don't know what caused this
[0:08] plane to veer so far off course and to
[0:10] eventually crash in South Dakota, but
[0:12] the speculation that uh that we have
[0:15] heard from an expert this morning,
[0:17] earlier told us he thinks the jet cabin
[0:20] rapidly decompressed, and he says if
[0:21] that's the case, you've got nine to 15
[0:24] seconds to get some supplemental oxygen.
[0:26] Is does that jive with your experience?
[0:28] Well, um it sort of Yes. Yes, it does.
[0:32] Uh but there's a few things about rapid
[0:34] decompressions I think that that a lot
[0:36] of people fail to take into account. And
[0:38] one of them obviously is that in a rapid
[0:40] decompression, something is happening
[0:42] very quickly. And and so uh basically
[0:45] you're going to have the the altitude uh
[0:47] whatever altitude you might be at, the
[0:49] pressure on the inside of the aircraft
[0:50] are going to attempt to equalize. And so
[0:53] there's going to be debris flying about
[0:54] the cockpit of the aircraft and people
[0:56] are going to be acting very uh very, you
[0:58] know, hurriedly obviously trying