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Old 6th Sep 2013, 10:08
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BARKINGMAD
 
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PLUG DOORS-GOOD, OUTWARDS OPENING-BAD?

Difficult to pressurise the cabin then?

Only problem I can see is the trail of suitcases falling out with very small risk of hitting stabiliser.

However, if the door decided to partially close under "g", the resulting pressure surge would not be a good thing if the diff "helped" it to seat closed?

Had a rear cargo door light at 110kts on departure, pressurisation OK, continued to destination where we were unable even to pull out the handle to attempt to open the door.

Turns out the "keyring" on the insecure door closing lanyard had been trapped in the latch mechanism by a gorilla loader, all lights out on pushback and taxi and initial pre80kts roll.

Aft cargo door light, at night at that speed not what I wanted to see, but a lucky correct decision to GO!

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