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Uncontrolled decompression

Unplanned drop in the pressure of a sealed system

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

An uncontrolled decompression is an undesired drop in the pressure of a sealed system, such as a pressurised aircraft cabin or hyperbaric chamber, that typically results from human error, structural failure, or impact, causing the pressurised vessel to vent into its surroundings or fail to pressurize at all.

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The public source identifies “Uncontrolled decompression” as unplanned drop in the pressure of a sealed system. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Uncontrolled, decompression and Unplanned.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 48-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Uncontrolled, decompression and Unplanned providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Uncontrolled decompression” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.