Surely impossible?
I just watched a re-run of the movie "Catch me if you can" and it showed the hero escaping from a taxiing airliner via the toilet - errrant Hollywood nonsense I thought. Then I checked the bio of the hero on Wikipedia (yeah, yeah, I know...) and found the following passage:
"While being extradited to the U.S., Abagnale claims to have escaped a British VC-10 airliner as it was turning onto a taxi strip at New York's JFK International Airport. Abagnale purported in his biography (originally published in 1980) to have removed the toilet knobs in the plane's lavatory and squeezed through a two-foot-square hatch cover before dropping ten feet to the tarmac below."
I still think this is highly improbable - any comments from those who understand the deep innards of heavy jets & especially the VC10?
Thanks