Mt Whitney Zone Forums General Discussion High altitude survival airplane quiz

wagga I immediately thought of the Payne Steward episode where they all were almost instantaneously incapacitated and unable to have time to put on their oxygen masks.One assumes the pilots were wearing their masks or had them readily at hand but as Harvey points out it is the pressure and not the oxygen.It is similar to a diver assending too quickly from depth.Boyles Law I seem to recall.