Editing Uncontrolled decompression (section)

===Explosive decompression===

Explosive decompression occurs typically in less than 0.1 to 0.5 seconds, a change in cabin pressure faster than the lungs can decompress.<ref name="FAA-OPS"/><ref>{{cite book|title=Flight Training Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ioRTAAAAMAAJ|year=1980|access-date=2007-07-28|publisher=U.S. Dept. of Transportation, [[Federal Aviation Administration]], Flight Standards Service|page=250|author1=Flight Standards Service, United States|author2=Federal Aviation Agency, United States}}</ref> Normally, the time required to release air from the lungs without restrictions, such as masks, is 0.2 seconds.<ref name="phak7-36" /> The risk of lung trauma is very high, as is the danger from any unsecured objects that can become [[projectile]]s because of the [[explosion|explosive]] force, which may be likened to a bomb detonation.

Immediately after an explosive decompression, a heavy fog may fill the aircraft cabin as the air cools, raising the [[relative humidity]] and causing sudden condensation.<ref name="phak7-36">{{Cite PHAK|year=2016|chapter=7|pages=36}}</ref> Military pilots with [[oxygen mask]]s must pressure-breathe, whereby the lungs fill with air when relaxed, and effort has to be exerted to expel the air again.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://aupress.au.af.mil/digital/pdf/book/brulle_engineering_space_age.pdf|title=Engineering the Space Age: A Rocket Scientist Remembers|author=Robert V. Brulle|date=2008-09-11|publisher=[[Athabasca University Press|AU Press]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928085032/http://aupress.au.af.mil/digital/pdf/book/brulle_engineering_space_age.pdf|archive-date=2011-09-28|access-date=2010-12-01}}</ref>