[Embraer]

Originally Posted by svandamme

If memory serves me right, they were flying low, depressurisation might not have been as eventfull as you think.


Either way, I doubt there is any kind of way that the shooting down of a 747 with passengers would not have caused at least several moments , or minutes of horror for some..
I doubt as quick as "seconds". Not even if the fighterjets had missiles on board...
No AA or SAM Missile is capable of making the entire 747 cabin explode in one go, not even the big AIM54 that the F-14 carried.

And even if there was massive depressurization , if the on board systems for emergency oxygen aren't taken out, some might survive the way down with the Oxygen mask that drops down..

Either way, if i were the pilot, trying to take down an 747 with limited rounds.
I think i'de aim for the wing root... Plenty of fuel there, and 105 rounds of 20mm explosive and incendiary rounds in that area would make short work of the wing and the explosion would do the rest.

as an FYI, it was a 757.