Originally Posted by
xolinlevh
so if the pressure in the cabin drops, and your in the lav, wouldnt the pressure difference between the closed lav and the cabin create a large differential that would hold the door closed, preventing you from opening it easily in order to reach a mask outside the lav? Thereby ensuring that anyone IN the lav at the time will probably die?
The pressure differential would probably lean towards making the door open, not keep it closed, unless the pressure loss was in the bathroom (leading to other potential jokes...).