Originally Posted by
Dadaluma83
Even though I know the inner panels have nothing to do with keeping the aircraft pressurized, and the structural integrity or anything like that even so if that ever happened on a flight I would naturally be pretty freaked out, at least at first until I saw that was all that was happening. Don't see how anyone could be perfectly calm the whole time.
I could just be blasé. Too many bush and military flights. A C-130 night combat landing (no lights, steep combat approach) into an airport with GCA alone and a short runway subject to mortar fire and a six foot drop from surrounding ground and over a shot-up C-47, watching AK-47 flashes as Charlie fires at the engine exhaust flames, toting 500 gallon bags of high octane avgas, some sick ARVN troops and the mail ends with a very firm landing and full brakes and reverse stomach-wrenching stop followed by a "hurry, hurry, hurry" run down the ramps gives one a calmer perspective when a panel or two loosens. And a race as to whether your hair turns Colo or bails on you.
