Originally Posted by
ACARS
The crash axe isn't a crash axe. It us a fire axe (official name) used to access areas needed to spray BCF (halon) extinguishers into , such as removing a cabin wall panel, IFE box, passenger brief case etc etc etc. it isn't meant to be used to chop your way through doors or fuselage to escape/ gain entry/exit.
The axe used to be meant to do things which you say it isn't meant to do -- indeed some things which it can no longer do.
Originally Posted by
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> I clearly recall hearing or reading that one of the tests that has been conducted on
> cockpit doors is a hand grenade and other small explosives taped to the door.
Correct. The doors have been designed and demonstrated to be resistant to bullets, fragmentation grenades and grenade blast damage.
And yet these doors can still be removed.