Guess every country will run things differently but that's definitely how it works in this country. Perhaps certain professions should be notified by the doctors themselves to stop cases like these slipping through the net. I'm sure military personnel wouldn't get away with keeping it under wraps.
shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh according to the bickering children, the passengers are given a blanket each - that should be enough, eh castro?
Some of the comments and counter comments in this thread are bordering on surreal. I'm just going to post this wiki link (Roo will be happy) and you can all get back to speculating, conjecture and believing the daily mail as gospel (ironic after posting a wiki link, right?). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_limit
That wasn't mentioned anywhere. It was stated 'your blood would boil', not 'your blood would boil unless you were wearing a special ****ing suit'.
Are you 100% sure that's how it works with people of certain job responsibilities such as, say, a commercial airline pilot?
No, but you could jump out of a plane at 36,000 feet in one and your blood wouldn't boil. Good idea to have some oxygen with you though.
point is, you wouldn't survive very long, jumping from that height. if the pilot wants to take you all with him, when he is suicidal - there is little anyone can do.
If you jumped from that height with a parachute you would. 10,000 feet is the altitude a pilot takes the plane down to when the cabin has suffered depressurisation as it's a breathable. The little oxygen masks that drop down in front of you have about 10 minutes supply of air so the pilot has to get the plane down to a breathable altitude ie 10,000 feet. That's what some expert said on the TV yesterday. I do not recall him mentioning anyone's blood boiling, I think I'd have remembered that. Damn you dumb Patty.
like I said, you wouldn't survive very long. so you're in favour of parachutes then? cos everytime I try to suggest it is a bad idea, you counteract it with how I'm wrong. OR as I suspect, you're just an argumentative **** with too much time on your hands? ****ing unemployable - sub underclass.
26000' is the highest breathable altitude but it takes days or weeks of acclimatisation for your body to be able to survive on such low oxygen levels. 7000' is the highest breathable altitude without acclimatisation. I wonder how fast you fall?
Are you really telling me that a pilot of a commercial airline can go to his quacks, get told he's too sick to work, ignore that, go in to work as normal and nobody knows anything about it? I don't know if that's the case, I'm not arguing I'm asking. If so it's absolutely effn ridiculous.
I don't know, has there been some research? I'd be keen to learn the answer. And again someone on this board confuses pedantic with correct.
I'd assume so. I think it's only military and emergency services that get direct access to medical records, could well be wrong.
When you think of it I suppose it's not really that different to a bus driver - they can get 70-odd people on board - or a train driver with several hundred and I don't imagine there would be stringent practices in place regarding similar occurrences. We just view planes differently.
