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Posted by Alan Morton The actions by the radio operator, Sgt Norman Musial are not that unusual. In a situation where the plane is out of control and the forces of gravity have practically frozen your body to the inside of the fuselage ... terror takes over and you're in sheer panic. Additionally, often those crew members that have to wear a harness with a sepatate parachute pack that clips onto the harness store their chute pack close by their station for them to grab it when an emergency occurs. The down side of not having the chest chute pack attached to you at all times may be obvious ... many young men in a state of absolute panic jump out of the plane without said pack and fall to their deaths.
on 12/2/2003, 6:48 pm, in reply to "Lt. Phillip H. Birong 457th BG, 751st BS, Mission 46"
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The radio operator, Sgt Norman Musial spilled his packed parachute in the plane and, in spite of urgings from the other crewmen, would not jump with the folded parachute in his arms. He stayed with the plane and died when the plane crashed.
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