the article refers to oxygen atoms, in which case its all true (apart from the ear and metal thing i suppose). But getting sunburnt is the last thing i'd worry about in this case. Hell you'd die within a second.
Lies, acceleration due to gravity is 9.8m/s squared. Within 5 seconds, the plane would fall maybe about 49m. And in a meter, there are 3-4 meters(let's round up and say 4 meters) So 4 x 49 is 196. If a plane was 10,000 feet ubove ground when air disapears, it would still be around the 9000 feet range when it returns. What I would be worried about is everyone in the plane cabins dying from lack of oxygen(High altitudes = low oxygen)
You've been discredited in your own thread; I'd be hidden under my bed right now, crying incessantly in fetal form for days.
Acceleration do to Gravity is 32ft/s^2 roughly so it's not just adding them so it would drop roughly 5,120 feet but also the engines would need restarting and time to get to climb rate so it would be a rough situation and 5 seconds of no air wouldn't kill a person. This is a digression though planes have a glide ration so for every foot dropped it goes x number of feet forward so the plane wouldn't just drop from the sky unless hit with wind shear
Just wanna correct your calculations. 1foot = 30-33cm so 1m = 3feet. Acceleration on earth is about 9.81m/s^2 so rounded up 30feet/s^3. Distance in acceleration = 1/2 x a x t^2 = 15 x 25 = 375feet. That the maximum distance it drops so there is really no danger whatsoever because 375 is total loss of lift while were looking at just 21% loss
and my brain hurts when people convert metres to feet (apart from doing this inaccurate) and do physics with it.
Yeah I did the equation wrong I think but it would be slightly larger than a 21% loss of lift as oxygen is heavier than nitrogen but the main problem would be restarting combustion engines such as turbojets, turbofans, turbopropellers, and piston engines and getting up to an rpm that would restore proper thrust