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See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11
by mikeytown2 10y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_11
- dreamcompiler 10y agoDidn't know about that one. Thanks for the link. Still, passenger jets are pressurized today and they rarely lose pressure. The technology is much more reliable now.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 10y agoIIRC pressure loss incidents are common, but not newsworthy because nothing really bad happens. The air pressure is still high enough to allow people to breathe, so you just need to supply oxygen-enriched air while the plane descends to 10000 feet. With suborbital flights, neither breathing nor descending more quickly would be an option.
- crzwdjk 10y agoYou don't need to go all the way to space to die of hypoxia, cruising altitude for modern jets is plenty good for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Airways_Flight_522 (and several other examples of non-airliner "ghost planes" that I'm too lazy to look up)