A YouTube video widely derided as a pilot faking an engine failure so he could bail out of his stricken airplane was in fact caused by a little appreciated hazard of being accidentally sucked out of the airplane when a door comes open. In this week’s Best of the Web video, crack aviation investigator Bryan Turner gets to the bottom of this tragic event and surely hundreds of lives will be saved as a result. As he points out, it can happen in cars, too. Even your house.
Best Of The Web: Pilot Sucked Out Of Airplane
Key Takeaways:
- The widely derided YouTube video, thought to show a pilot faking an engine failure, was actually caused by the pilot being accidentally sucked out of the airplane when a door opened.
- Aviation investigator Bryan Turner identified this "little appreciated hazard" as the true cause of the tragic event.
- Turner noted that this type of accidental egress is a general hazard that can also occur in cars and houses.
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