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Originally Posted by flatbutt View Post
So chances of surviving the extrusion are not favorable. The pressure delta must be yuge in order to make that happen.
At altitude the pressure differential is quite high. I get the impression this was on climb-out, so the inside/outside delta was not as great as it could have been. At altitude, even a football lineman would disappear like a fart in a hurricane, leaving a pretty gooey mess behind. Of course everything else going out behind him would soon clean that right up.
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