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Old 14th Mar 2005, 08:20
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RevMan2
 
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LH must attract them!
My wife was a sandwich mechanic on a flight back in the early 80s (I tagged along for the ride) where a pax sleepwalked over to 3R and tried to open it between JKT and SYD. All hell broke loose and they restrained the chappy and put him in F to keep him out of the way of the rest of the punters who were all for a lynching.
All the vacationing LH mechanics from HAM on the flight plus the FE agreed that nothing could happen, all locks still in place etc etc. Aircraft touches down in SYD and the door starts swinging open. Said wife flies across from 3L and applies her 45k as a counter weight, joined 3 seconds later by 90k of steward from 2R, having set a 747 hurdling record in the process.
Slide didn't deploy, but people claimed to have seen the runway sliding under them at a significant rate of knots through the gap.
Sheepish looking mechanics and FE. Never heard what happened to the perpetrator.
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