Originally Posted by
Mad (Flt) Scientist
To achieve an eight foot drop on the CRJ takes some doing. It's actually about 5 foot to the bottom of the main pax door. (6 feet is the critical height where slides etc start to be needed, per 25.810) And if the main door is open, there are stairs. The wing is more like 3-4 foot to the ground - which agreed isn't a small drop, but it's not 8 feet. I guess if they had climbed on the nacelle first they might have managed to make it 8 feet.
How much change in rear door height when the nose wheel is missing?