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Originally Posted by doug
Loss of cabin pressure, and it gets really cold.
Overhead masks drop and you freeze your ass off.
I doubt it would break up the aircraft, but it would suck.
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This was tested on
Mythbusters. They fired a handgun through the window of a pressurized aircraft to see what would happen.
Almost nothing did. Sure, there was a hole and a very small leak, but otherwise, the results were hardly catastrophic. They had to use explosives to tear a hole in the aircraft large enough to actually cause a true explosive decompression.
(part one):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9sYXqO5L0k
(part two):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrbvLbdZlag