nurse sucked out window

[soarby007]

anyone have the details on the newsreports over the last week about the nurse getting sucked out thru the cabin window at FL200? I heard the interview today and he made it, barely. Just wondering about the details.

 

[Say Again Over]

Hadn't heard about this, doesn't seem like enough differential pressure to do this. Maybe someone helped her.

 

[Say Again Over]

Flight nurse tells how he survived window blowout

By JOHN MILLER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BOISE, Idaho -- A flight nurse who had his head and right arm sucked through the broken window of an air ambulance at 20,000 feet said the hard shell of his headset frame may have saved his life.
Chris Fogg, 41, suffered lacerations on his head that required 13 staples. A chunk of flesh was also ripped from his arm.
The nurse for Ada-Boi Critical Care, a business owned by his family, said the headset he uses to talk to the pilot during patient transports likely kept him from being knocked out from the impact when the window exploded.
One second he was chatting with the patient and pilot, Fogg said, the next he was hanging out the window, looking back at the tail of the plane.
"It (the headset) took the major brunt of the blow going through the window. I think that's what saved me from having severe injuries.
"If I had been knocked out, I think I would have been pulled completely through," Fogg told The Associated Press on Monday.
"I was struggling with every ounce of my being. My left arm was keeping me from going out. I was holding the wall."
The plane, a twin-engine Piper turboprop flown by a pilot from a Boise charter aviation company, was 18 minutes out of Twin Falls on a 2 1/2-hour evening flight to a Seattle hospital Wednesday. The plane was climbing to 22,000 feet. Fogg had just reached for water bottles for the patient and the pilot when the window blew out; he hadn't yet fastened his seat belt.
"I have a vivid image of the tail, and of my headset whacking the fuselage of the plane, because it was still hooked up (inside)," said the resident of Meridian, a suburb of Boise.
Fogg said he struggled to finally break the seal his body had formed against the window frame and pull himself back into the cabin. By then, he was bleeding heavily from the head and arm wounds.
Fogg said the pilot reacted quickly: When the plane lost cabin pressure, he put it into a steep dive to 10,000 feet, an altitude where Fogg would be able to get enough oxygen to survive. The patient was already breathing oxygen.
The plane made an emergency landing about 20 minutes later at the airport in Boise.

Here it is.

 

[CaravanMan]

My crew was telling me about this the other day! Pretty scary!