So when a airliner gets a big hole blasted in it's side, where does all of the paper flying around the cabin come from?  I mean the only paper in airplanes are the little travel magazines, but the paper flying around is unbound.  Newspapers and such.  Maybe the magazine staples all get pulled and sucked out the hole.  Never did figure that out.

Mythbusters did an experiment in Episode 10 to see if a bullet would blow out the side of a plane.  OK, so the bullet didn't, but let's just say they found something that did.

On TWA Flight 840 back in 1986, a bomb blew a hole in the plane and 4 people, one of them with the seat, were blown out the hole.  But no mention of a cabin full of papers.  During the Aloha Flight 243, the roof tore off and pretty much the movie version of things occurred, except that the stuff flying around was debris and insulation, not paper.

I just watched Executive Decision and sure enough.  Big hole blasted in the side at 30,000 feet, a row of seats went out the hole, and all these thousands of papers flew around the plane and out the hole.

But where does the paper come from?