Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for March 14, 2014

Sounds like a lot of bowl.

And how did that plane get a broken window?

They replaced the window and used wrong screws. Also the plane had a design flaw where the windows are secured from the outside, causing additional stress to the bolts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_5390

At 23,000 feet and 600 MPH the pilot must have been dead when they landed. Lack of oxygen and hypothermia. I’ve HALO jumped from 25,000 and it is frigging cold up there. We had to breather pure oxygen for ten minutes before we jumped to last us until we got down to 10,000 feet. Straight down at 240 MPH, not 600 on a slant for miles and miles. And we had goggles to protect our eyes from the ferocious wind chills.

Also see “Ripped From The Cockpit” on YouTube

The pilot most probably fell unconscious, slowing his metabolism and not requiring that much breathing. It reminds me of the guy in India who, while practicing yoga and not breathing for a long period of time, managed to survive the deadly toxic fumes emanating from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, in 1984.

Unless there’s some sound proof system in place, can you just imagine the noise in that bowling alley when all 116 lanes are used at the same time?

I look for this countries’ life expectancy to drop again if the likes of Ted Cruz and Rick Perry have their way and Federal regulatory agencies protecting your health and workplace safety become a crazy quilt of state groups indebted to local industries like those in coal country.Of course, the Pure Food And Drug Act wasn’t passed until 1906, and there was a World War and resultant influenza epidemic that might have skewed life expectancy data back then.I’d like to know where the information for 1914 came from as the latest census was four years previous.

Because the Federal agencies are doing such a great job and everything…

Perhaps Mitt Romney rolled down the window while the jet was cruising at 25 thousand feet

I guess you’ve never seen the ads for the patent medicines of that time?Additionally, corporations held sway over the conditions workers (including children) were subjected to. Most of the country was rural at that time and vaccination programs (for example) did not spring from the goodness of the people in their own self interest or their knowledge of science.

The plane was a British Aircraft Corporation One-Eleven, also known as the BAC-111 which was not a “Jumbo Jet”.

It was indeed NOT a jumbo jet. (where do they get their facts?) Mohawk Airlines was I believe the first US customer to acquire the BAC-111 from British Aircraft Corporation. It had a “T” tail & 2 rear mounted engines, much like the DC-9. By todays standards, it would be considered as a regional jet airliner, but with a roomier cabin & seating. I used to fuel these & had several demo rides in one, when Mohawk got their first delivery in the 60s.