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Article: Insidious decompression.(aircraft decompression)
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- Flying Safety
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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The sortie started out as your average training mission. It was a normal weekday at the 20th Bomb Squadron, Barksdale AFB, in the battle-tested B-52H. We thoroughly briefed the mission the day before, ensuring all the paperwork was accomplished. The mission would take us to Lancer ATCCA for simulated weapons-activity training for an hour and a half, then off to rendezvous with a tanker for some aerial-refueling training, ending with us back home to beat up the pattern for a bit. A little non-standard was that we would be flying with the vice wing commander, who was a radar navigator by trade, and it was also going to be a night sortie.
We assembled at the ...