Originally Posted by
stinky123
I'm not sure what the point of the seat belt discussion is. The belt are not designed to keep a passenger in the seat when there is a sucking hole in the aircraft.
The tone of the seatbelt discussion from some is bull crop.
That said, out of curiosity, what are the g-forces of severe turbulence vs. a decompression? And for how long are those forces sustained?
The other question is what was the timeframe between the initial engine blowout and the shrapnel piercing the aircraft? I thought I read somewhere there was another initial hole the crew was trying to deal with first. If that's the case, I would certainly hope that all pax would have buckled up, but per the Q's above, I don't know if that would have even helped.