Genuinely intrigued why the gender of passengers was important in the cry for help. Culture I guess?
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appears they nearly had an emergency slide deployment too. |
Originally Posted by Max Angle
(Post 11441129)
I think the slide deployed (the door would have been armed) and was ripped off by the airflow, looks like the remains hanging out of the slide housing.
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Originally Posted by albatross
(Post 11441139)
Another site states that the slide did deploy and was torn off by the airflow…I wonder where it ended up. I edited my post to reflect this.
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Originally Posted by Noxegon
(Post 11441120)
Genuinely intrigued why the gender of passengers was important in the cry for help. Culture I guess?
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Originally Posted by albatross
(Post 11441139)
Another site states that the slide did deploy and was torn off by the airflow…I wonder where it ended up.
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Originally Posted by Noxegon
(Post 11441120)
Genuinely intrigued why the gender of passengers was important in the cry for help. Culture I guess?
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Maybe it was part of a task on Squid Game.
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Spot on!!
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It has always been claimed that opening a door in-flight, even when the cabin was not pressurized, was impossible because of the airflow.
It seems that the combined wisdom of Pprune was wrong. |
Originally Posted by etrang
(Post 11441331)
It has always been claimed that opening a door in-flight, even when the cabin was not pressurized, was impossible because of the airflow.
It seems that the combined wisdom of Pprune was wrong. Where are all the posts that you are referring to? |
AFAIK there are no door flt locks on the Airbus 320 series CEO. It is called a plug door because when it is shut the differential pressure pushes the lugs on the door against corresponding lugs on the airframe. On descent and approach the differential pressure equalises with ambient pressure to allow the doors to be opened in the event of an emergency.
I'm still impressed that the door assist system was able to open the door against the airflow though. Could have been a whole lot worse if the slide had ended up wrapped around the tail section. |
Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
(Post 11441353)
There are indeed many posts about opening doors in flight, but a quick search reveals that almost all of them concern GA types, not airliners.
Where are all the posts that you are referring to? Try looking in the Pax and SLF forum. Even in this thread people have said it should be impossible, and if there wasn't video evidence i'm sure they would be claiming it didn't happen. |
Originally Posted by albatross
(Post 11441139)
Another site states that the slide did deploy and was torn off by the airflow…I wonder where it ended up. I edited my post to reflect this.
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....625fe21efc.jpg If I'm not mistaken, the door looks a bit skewed compared to its normal open position, suggesting something got a bit bent in the process ... |
Originally Posted by etrang
(Post 11441386)
Every time there's an event where a passenger attempts to open a door in flight, many ppruners jump up to say it's impossible.
Try looking in the Pax and SLF forum. Even in this thread people have said it should be impossible, and if there wasn't video evidence i'm sure they would be claiming it didn't happen. it’s impossible to open a door against a fully pressurised cabin. So can a cabin door be opened inflight? Yes, but only in very specific circumstances. In normal cruise flight, at cruise altitude, it’s impossible. |
Originally Posted by Jonty
(Post 11441431)
it’s impossible to open a door against a fully pressurised cabin. So can a cabin door be opened inflight? Yes, but only in very specific circumstances. In normal cruise flight, at cruise altitude, it’s impossible.
Doors like those on narrow-body Airbuses, that move upwards and then outwards, are subject to different considerations. It may be that cruise diff pressure is sufficient to prevent the upwards movement of the door, but I wouldn't want to bet on that. Nor, presumably, would Asiana. |
Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
(Post 11441454)
It would be more accurate to say that it's impossible to open a door that initially moves inwards against a fully pressurised cabin, for obvious reasons.
Doors like those on narrow-body Airbuses, that move upwards and then outwards, are subject to different considerations. It may be that cruise diff pressure is sufficient to prevent the upwards movement of the door, but I wouldn't want to bet on that. Nor, presumably, would Asiana. "Imagine trying to open a car door at 100mph...impossible. Now try opening a door 2 x the size and weight at nearly 200mph. Also impossible unless the door opens backwards" |
Originally Posted by DaveReidUK
(Post 11441454)
It would be more accurate to say that it's impossible to open a door that initially moves inwards against a fully pressurised cabin, for obvious reasons.
Doors like those on narrow-body Airbuses, that move upwards and then outwards, are subject to different considerations. It may be that cruise diff pressure is sufficient to prevent the upwards movement of the door, but I wouldn't want to bet on that. Nor, presumably, would Asiana. |
Originally Posted by etrang
(Post 11441470)
This comment is from this very thread, not far above yours.
"Imagine trying to open a car door at 100mph...impossible. Now try opening a door 2 x the size and weight at nearly 200mph. Also impossible unless the door opens backwards" |
Originally Posted by HOVIS
(Post 11441363)
I'm still impressed that the door assist system was able to open the door against the airflow though.
A crosswind on approach? Perhaps a crab into the wind on final changed laminar flow in the vicinity of LD3 in a manner that made the door fully open more easily than might otherwise have been the case? |
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