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Romney mocked for comment about jet windows
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| Last Edited | The Sunset Provision Sep 24, 2012 06:42pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Tuesday, September 25, 2012 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | During a Saturday fundraiser in Beverly Hills, Calif., which took in $6 million, Mitt Romney expressed his concerns over Ann Romney’s emergency landing on Friday. The candidate cast doubt on the mechanical design of airplane windows, in a general sense.
“When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous....” he said.
Romney’s idea doesn’t work scientifically, as one blogger on Dailykos explains:
“It'd be like the mile-high club for Seamus, with the added benefit of asphyxiation induced by the low oxygen levels at cruising altitude — assuming that you manage to avoid having the plane rip apart due to the sudden loss of cabin pressure.”
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