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The Backstory: Surviving a 35,000-foot free fall

8m · The Backstory with Patty Steele · 16 Jan 05:00

Hearing about a panel on an Alaska Airlines jet popping off mid-air gives us all a serious case of the creeps. But imagine you’re in a jet at almost 35,000 feet when a terrorist’s bomb blows it into pieces. You free fall to Earth…and survive.

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