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Old 04-23-2014, 06:56 AM  
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Originally Posted by dyna mo View Post
don't forget how fast shit can happen at 30,000ft and 600mph. There was that flight years ago with the pro golfer on it that went off course, controllers scrambled f16s who visually confirmed that the crew were dead in the cockpit and the plane was cruising. I can't recall what happened to knock out the crew and cabin so fast but the plane flew till it ran out of gas and crashed, everyone on it was already dead.
What knocked them out so fast was hypoxia, lack of oxygen from a rapid loss of cabin pressure:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_So..._Learjet_crash
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