Who Let the Door Shut, Who, Who ,Who, Who!
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No, no, no, gents. *It* was an autopilot- dontcha remember that post-911 the safest avenue is to have no pilots at all?! The plane flew itself from Manchester....or something. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="confused.gif" />
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Well I’ll admit that it happened to me, on the ground. We had landed somewhere, I can’t remember where now and for one reason or another all three of us left the cockpit (this was in a B-727). You guessed it, cockpit door was closed by one of the cabin crew and it locked.. .. .Yes we all had spare keys, in our briefcases, which were in the cockpit. Because who we were and whom we hauled none of the cabin crew were allowed to have keys to the cockpit door. Our passengers were prisoners.. .. .So there we were standing at the cockpit door with about 100 federal prisoners staring at us while we tried to pick the lock with a penknife. I got a lot of offers from the prisoners to unlock the door for us in exchange for an early release from prison. But the offer I liked the best was from one guy who allowed that he really couldn’t pick the lock but he would be happy to go look for help.. .. .Well we did get the door unlocked and went on our merry way. And yes I did have to write a bunch of letters explaining what happened.
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Slow Flacid, No, but he taught you father everything he knew - Ha Votre Masturbatuer du la Premier Classe <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="biggrin.gif" />
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Unfortunately, this incident DID hapen and a Ravenair aircraft was called in to fly a key up. Removing electrical power DOES NOT unlock the door on the particular model of the A320........ . . .Even if it did, what about if the lock broke in the locked position?. . . . <small>[ 29 March 2002, 21:24: Message edited by: late pushback ]</small>
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Surely in the above overrun scenario, the CC's responibility would be to get the PAX evacuated, primary access to the cockpit would be by crash tender from outside. There is always the possibility in a crash that the door would jam through airframe distortion.
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I suspect that if the impact was sufficiently hard to distort the door frame then the door itself would have popped out as they are not particularly robust. Awaiting rescue by the firemen is not a prospect which fills me with excitement. Much easier and quicker to have the cabin crew pull you out from inside the aircraft than wait for the fire crews to roll up and cut their way in from the outside.
