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Sergio

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  1. RDN, it would be impossible to force a passenger out of an airplane that way!

    Airplanes have to bank in a turn to avoid sideslipping (pretty much like a speedboat, and totally unlike a car which always stays horizontal) so the resulting force on the passenger will always be towards his seat and never to the door...

    On aerobatic airplanes it would be possible to create forces big enough to make somebody fall out (involving negative g-forces, making the occupants float around in the plane if not belted tight to their seats) but on the light sportplanes used over here it would rather make the plane come apart then get the passenger to fall out !!

    Also, fear and survival instinct can make a person immensely strong, you would have to be very strong make the passenger let go of his grip on the airplane! I very much doubt a 50 year old pilot, busy keeping a plane in the air, would be able to do this...

    Andrea (half italian/half scandinavian) had scandinavian dimensions, was 6,5 foot tall and 220 pounds. Not the kind of guy to be easily kicked out of a flying airplane... He was a good friend of mine and I know for a fact he didn't have a death wish. This whole 'suicide/accident' story smells worse than rotten fish (thai-style)!

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