Ranting woman says she's God & tries to open cabin door on UA5449,SFO-BOI, 5 Mar 2018
Mar 5, 2018, 6:13 pm
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Ranting woman says she's God & tries to open cabin door on UA5449,SFO-BOI, 5 Mar 2018
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/flight-...ay-2018-03-05/
WASHINGTON -- Passengers onboard United Express Flight 5449 restrained a Boise, Idaho, woman who was ranting about being God. Video posted online purportedly shows a passenger working to tie up the woman's feet as another man holds her down in the aisle.
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Mar 5, 2018, 6:27 pm
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Mar 5, 2018, 6:39 pm
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I should know this from high school and college physics but have forgotten! Since the pressure is greater in the cabin than outside the plane, wouldn't opening the cabin doors that open OUTWARDS be easy, while trying to open the cabin doors (especially the wing exits) that open INWARDS would not be possible? On some/many planes, the main doors open outwards, and it's only the window exits that open inwards.
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Mar 5, 2018, 6:53 pm
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All Cabin doors and overwing exits initially open inward on ALL modern pressurized commercial aircraft. This is in addition to mechanical locking mechanisms and alarms.
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Mar 5, 2018, 6:57 pm
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Thanks for the clarification -- had not looked that closely at the doors during the deplaning process. Is this also true for the regional jets, including those with a ladder/steps built into the door?
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_door
Mar 5, 2018, 7:52 pm
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I was probably thinking of people getting sucked out of blown-out windows, including a pilot on a BA flight in 1990 who was able to cling to the nose cone while the copilot landed the craft!
June 10, 1990: Miracle of BA Flight 5390 as captain is sucked out of the cockpit ? and survives - BT
But, from the passenger's viewpoint, here's a woman who was sucked out a door, mid-flight -- albeit on a corporate plane, a DeHavilland Twin Otter which obviously didn't have the plug-type doors.
Woman Sucked Out of Airplane - ABC News
June 10, 1990: Miracle of BA Flight 5390 as captain is sucked out of the cockpit ? and survives - BT
But, from the passenger's viewpoint, here's a woman who was sucked out a door, mid-flight -- albeit on a corporate plane, a DeHavilland Twin Otter which obviously didn't have the plug-type doors.
Woman Sucked Out of Airplane - ABC News
Mar 5, 2018, 8:03 pm
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only exception are some cargo doors where the inward hinge would impede loading. Otherwise they are all plug type doors.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_door
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