Originally Posted by
Radgirl
Bottom line is that sudden depressurisation at 35 to 40,000 feet will kill at least some without oxygen regardless of how fast you can expedite descent.
By "sudden", do you mean near-instantaneous ?
That would imply some kind of catastrophic structural failure where lack of oxygen might well be the least of your problems.
In a more likely scenario, does anyone have ballpark figures for the likely cabin pressure decay vs time resulting from, say, a window blowout, assuming that all the packs are still running and (by then) the outflow valve has closed ?