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Old 23rd Jul 2014, 12:34
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dsc810
 
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Just to remind you that there was known to be at least one passenger from the Lockerbie disaster who was for a short period both alive and conscious after they had impacted the ground.

Typically it would take between 30 seconds and 1 minute for those passengers not incapacitated in the accident but ejected from the a/c to loose consciousness though lack of oxygen at that altitude. Whether many would regain consciousness as the oxygen levels increased on the way down is another question.
I would also expect windblast type injuries to abound to arms and legs as they would not have been falling like a trained parachutist would.
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