Editing Uncontrolled decompression (section)

===A bullet through a window may cause explosive decompression===
In 2004, the TV show ''[[MythBusters]]'' examined whether explosive decompression occurs when a bullet is fired through the fuselage of an airplane [[MythBusters (2004 season)#Explosive Decompression|informally]] by way of several tests using a decommissioned pressurised DC-9. A single shot through the side or the window did not have any effect – it took actual explosives to cause explosive decompression – suggesting that the [[fuselage]] is designed to prevent people from being blown out.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://newsfeed.time.com/2011/04/05/southwests-scare-when-a-plane-decompresses-what-happens/|title=Southwest's Scare: When a Plane Decompresses, What Happens?|magazine=Time|author=Josh Sanburn|date=April 5, 2011|access-date=April 18, 2018}}</ref> Professional pilot David Lombardo states that a bullet hole would have no perceived effect on cabin pressure as the hole would be smaller than the opening of the aircraft's [[Cabin pressurization#Mechanics|outflow valve]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/103194084/the-deadly-result-when-a-large-hole-is-ripped-in-the-side-of-an-aircraft|title=The deadly result when a large hole is ripped in the side of an aircraft|work=www.stuff.co.nz|author=Michael Daly and Lorna Thornber|date=April 18, 2018|access-date=April 18, 2018}}</ref>

However, [[NASA]] scientist [[Geoffrey A. Landis]] points out that the impact depends on the size of the hole, which can be expanded by debris that is blown through it. Landis went on to say that "it would take about 100 seconds for pressure to equalise through a roughly {{convert|30.0|cm|in|abbr=on}} hole in the fuselage of a Boeing 747." He then stated that anyone sitting next to the hole would have about half a ton of force pulling them towards it.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/how-could-a-passenger-get-sucked-out-of-a-plane-and-has-it-happened-before/news-story/ce94c6632b6f485fbccb05dd64b9bbee|title=How could a passenger get sucked out of a plane — and has it happened before?|work=www.news.com.au|author=Lauren McMah|date=April 18, 2018|access-date=April 18, 2018}}</ref> At least two confirmed cases have been documented of a person being blown through an airplane passenger window. The first [[National Airlines Flight 27|occurred in 1973]] when debris from an [[Turbine engine failure|engine failure]] struck a window roughly midway in the fuselage. Despite efforts to pull the passenger back into the airplane, the occupant was forced entirely through the cabin window.<ref name="auto2"/> The passenger's skeletal remains were eventually found by a construction crew, and were positively identified two years later.<ref name="auto1"/> The second incident occurred on April 17, 2018, when a woman on [[Southwest Airlines Flight 1380]] was partially blown through an airplane passenger window that had broken from a similar engine failure. Although the other passengers were able to pull her back inside, she later died from her injuries.<ref name="auto"/><ref name="nbcphiladelphia.com1"/><ref name="NYT on passenger"/> In both incidents, the plane landed safely with the sole fatality being the person seated next to the window involved.<!-- PLEASE AVOID INSERTING MORE POPULAR CULTURE REFERENCES UNLESS BACKED UP BY A SOURCE. SEE FURTHER AT Wikipedia:"In_popular_culture"_content --> Fictional accounts of this include a scene in [[Goldfinger (film)|''Goldfinger'']], when James Bond kills the eponymous villain by blowing him out a passenger window<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3039583.stm|title=Guns, Goldfinger and sky marshals|author=Ryan Dilley|publisher=BBC|quote=It's not all fiction. If an airliner's window was shattered, the person sitting beside it would either go out the hole or plug it - which would not be comfortable.|date=May 20, 2003}}</ref> and ''[[Die Another Day]]'', when an errant gunshot shatters a window on a cargo plane and rapidly expands, causing multiple enemy officials, henchmen and the main villain to be sucked out to their deaths.