xandreu wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 4:32 pm

hanno wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 4:25 pm

Kammekor wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 3:49 pm

yong wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 1:38 pm This could be stupid however unforgivable as it endangers many lives.

How opening an emergency exit while taxiing endangers many lives is beyond me.

Stupid, yes.
Dangerous, hardly.

What if he had done it two minutes later with the plane about to lift off?

I'm no aviation expert but I'd assume it's near-on impossible to open an aircraft door while the plane is in full motion (either in flight or taking off at speed) due to the extreme differences in pressure between the inside and outside of the aircraft?

How drunk must you have to be to do something like that? Drunk enough for the ground crew to realise he perhaps wasn't fit to fly?

hanno wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 4:25 pm

Kammekor wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 3:49 pm

yong wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 1:38 pm This could be stupid however unforgivable as it endangers many lives.

How opening an emergency exit while taxiing endangers many lives is beyond me.

Stupid, yes.
Dangerous, hardly.

What if he had done it two minutes later with the plane about to lift off?

Spigzy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 8:03 pm .... at altitude.

xandreu wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 4:32 pm

hanno wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 4:25 pm

Kammekor wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 3:49 pm

yong wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 1:38 pm This could be stupid however unforgivable as it endangers many lives.

How opening an emergency exit while taxiing endangers many lives is beyond me.

Stupid, yes.
Dangerous, hardly.

What if he had done it two minutes later with the plane about to lift off?

I'm no aviation expert but I'd assume it's near-on impossible to open an aircraft door while the plane is in full motion (either in flight or taking off at speed) due to the extreme differences in pressure between the inside and outside of the aircraft?

How drunk must you have to be to do something like that? Drunk enough for the ground crew to realise he perhaps wasn't fit to fly?

WHAT IF SOMEBODY OPENS A DOOR DURING FLIGHT?
It seems that a week can’t go by without hearing the latest story about a passenger who went cuckoo and tried to yank open an emergency exit, only to be tackled and restrained by those around him, who thought they were on the verge of being ejected into the troposphere.

While the news never fails to report these events, it seldom mentions the most important fact: you cannot –- repeat, cannot — open the doors or emergency hatches of an airplane in flight. You can’t open them for the simple reason that cabin pressure won’t allow it. Think of an aircraft door as a drain plug, fixed in place by the interior pressure. Almost all aircraft exits open inward. Some retract upward into the ceiling; others swing outward; but they open inward first, and not even the most musclebound human will overcome the force holding them shut. At a typical cruising altitude, up to eight pounds of pressure are pushing against every square inch of interior fuselage. That’s over eleven hundred pounds against each square foot of door. Even at low altitudes, where cabin pressure levels are much less, a meager 2 p.s.i. differential is still more than anyone can displace — even after six cups of coffee and the aggravation that comes with sitting behind a shrieking baby. The doors are further held secure by a series of electrical and/or mechanical latches.

So, while I wouldn’t recommend it, unless you enjoy being pummeled and placed in a choke-hold by panicked passengers, a person could, conceivably, sit there all day tugging on a door handle to his or her heart’s content. The door is not going to open (though you might get a red light flashing in the cockpit, causing me to spill my Coke Zero). You would need a hydraulic jack, and the TSA doesn’t allow those.

On the 19-passenger turboprop I used to fly, the main cabin door had an inflatable seal around its inner sill. During flight the seal would inflate, helping to lock in cabin pressure while blocking out the racket from the engines. Every now and then the seal would suffer a leak or puncture and begin to deflate, sometimes rapidly. The resultant loss of pressurization was easily addressed and ultimately harmless, but the sudden noise — a great, hundred-decibel sucking sound together with the throb of two 1,100 horsepower engines only a few feet away — would startle the hell out of everybody on the plane, including me.

On the ground the situation changes — as one would hope, with the possibility of an evacuation in mind. During taxi, you will get the door to open. You will also activate the door’s emergency escape slide. As an aircraft approaches the gate, you will sometimes hear the cabin crew calling out “doors to manual” or “disarm doors.” This has to do with overriding the automatic deployment function of the slides. Those slides can unfurl with enough force to kill a person, and you don’t want them billowing onto the jet bridge or into a catering truck.

GMJS-CEO wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 7:31 pm

hanno wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 4:25 pm

Kammekor wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 3:49 pm

yong wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 1:38 pm This could be stupid however unforgivable as it endangers many lives.

How opening an emergency exit while taxiing endangers many lives is beyond me.

Stupid, yes.
Dangerous, hardly.

What if he had done it two minutes later with the plane about to lift off?

He is guilty of what he did, he is not guilty of what he hypothetically could have done.

I doubt he gets locked up 7 years.