If Richard Reid had been killed by an air marshall but a bullet had punctured the skin of the aircraft he was in in the exchange, some people who are now alive would be in small bits in the Atlantic.
Umm how do you figure? So you get a small hole in the airplane. No bid deal. Ever use the sink in the lav? Where do you think the water runs out (and how do you think people get away with smoking in the lav's by theway? They take the stopper out of the old sinks, or the leave the water running in the new sinks...)
When people have been sucked out of aircraft because of holes it has been because of structural failures that open great big holes in the sides of the airplanes where the rip stop has failed (a phenomema where fatigue cracks line up)...
You are watching too much hollywood. Everyone thinks it would be like in goldfinger...
Cheers
Wino