Some people open the door to get out. THis woman just needed a cigarette.

[highfly 0]

Poor old Frenchy

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[windcatcher 0]

oh my gosh that's flippin scary!!! I admit to looking at a commercial airplane door and wondering what kind of freefall I would get if the plane started going down--course without a rig that would be my last freefall experience

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[mcneill79 0]

I'm not a fan of the repost police... but in this case it's still on the first page.

[highfly 0]

oops sorry.
Bit lazy today.

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[mx757 4]

with aircraft pressuized, the door WON'T open due to safety locks. aircraft would have to be unpressuired to open the door.

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with aircraft pressuized, the door WON'T open due to safety locks. aircraft would have to be unpressuired to open the door.

And with the wind she would have needed something better than a Zippo to light her cigarette

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[Viking 0]

well maybe she would be lucky enough to get her cancer stick lit by the rather large blow torchs under the wings.

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[freethefly 6]

Thanks to D.B. Cooper, you cannot open doors inflight.

"...And once you're gone, you can't come back
When you're out of the blue and into the black."
Neil Young

[JohnMitchell 16]

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with aircraft pressuized, the door WON'T open due to safety locks. aircraft would have to be unpressuired to open the door.

Nothing to do with safty locks. Those doors open inwards, and at altitude there is about 10 tons of air pressure inside the airplnae holding it in place, the ultimate safety lock.

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[mx757 4]

not always 777 open outwards, 767 up toward top 757 open inwards etc.

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with aircraft pressuized, the door WON'T open due to safety locks. aircraft would have to be unpressuired to open the door.

Nothing to do with safty locks. Those doors open inwards, and at altitude there is about 10 tons of air pressure inside the airplnae holding it in place, the ultimate safety lock.

the 777 I know at 80 knots a senold locks all the doors and another locks the doors when the cabin pressure reaches .12 psi Its been awhile since I rigged door on a 767 I can't remember without looking in aircraft manual, but the older aircraft were easier to open doors. new aircraft you can't

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not always 777 open outwards, 767 up toward top 757 open inwards etc.

Does the 767 door move inward and up, or outward and up? If inward, the pressure thing would apply.

Didn't know that about the 777 door. There are some structural advantages to having the door open outward (it can be a load carrying frame member when locked down, saving some weight) but there is a safety penalty. If the locking mechanism fails it can be disasterous. Think of those DC-10 crashes after the cargo doors failed in flight, or United's close call with a B-747.

[ryoder 1,590]

Rotten shame someone got cheated out of their Darwin award.

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