Here’s something that doesn’t happen often, but is quite scary to think about…
Continue reading: Man Opens Asiana Airbus A321 Exit Door Inflight
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Dang, it's one of those where you kinda admire the boldness and sheer craziness, but it's also obviously a dumb thing to do that injured a few people. Gotta get some doctors to work with the guy.
No one was sucked out because of low speed or because the plane was at low altitude?
Passengers probably had their seatbelts on but also the pressure differential is not going to be very much when the door was opened so the overall sensation would be like driving with a window open...just much higher speeds.
He was probably just trying to get away from Tim “Dumb”…. He was probably droning on mindlessly on how much better Delta is and this person felt the need to escape!
The seat belt was strong enough and also low altitude hence little wind typically.
Well at least he paid attention to the exit row safety briefing and card instructing him how to operate the door
There's an open aircraft door 1,000' feet up and I'm being asked to stand close to it to prevent him from jumping out? Um, my solution would be a lot simpler and save everyone from a lot of trouble.
That's why every commercial planes need to have individual air nozzles.
"9 people taken to hospital with breathing difficulties."
Confirming it's an air nozzle problems.
The exit doors on A321 are power assisted, so it opens automatically if only you pull the lever. You don't need any strength to open the door.
See how the door opens: https://youtu.be/uDqPpXZI5q4?t=5
Boeing aircrafts have a feature that locks the exit doors until touchdown, but A321s don't seem to have it, so the doors can open in the air at low altitude.
Also in Asiana's configuration, there's no crew seat at all around exit L3 and R3. Almost a half of A321s in the world are configured like this.. There's no crew that monitors these exits during taxi, takeoff and landing.
https://www.aerolopa.com/oz-321-1
Wow Gaybe - you really had to force that joke in there, didn’t you? How completely unfunny
Actually harkening back to “Airplane 2” with fellow passengers being talked to death by the little old woman seatmate it is a bit humorous….and of course Tim kind of deserves it…but yes Gaybe has been going a bit overboard these days.
You last few sentences seem a bit blame-ish. It's not like Boeings are any different.
On any given 737, there's at most 5 FAs under western labor regulations, typically 3 on the -300s/-500s/-600s/-700s. Suffice to say, that's not enough to man all doors.
I don't blame the crew seat stuff.. What to blame is "flight lock" which is on Boeing and not on Airbus A321ceo.
The breathing bags didn't deploy. Airbus or whoever needs to recalibrate what the sudden air pressure difference needs to be for it to deploy considering some kids had to be sent to the hospital on this flight.
With "flight lock" how can we send a mid-air rescue team from another plane if you can't open the doors.
How can another hijacker pull a modern day DB Cooper and parachute out.
Most importantly, non-Hollywood, how do you know the lock would not fail to disengage in an actual emergency.
Nope. Plenty of oxygen in the air at 1’000 feet.
They probably got hit with flying debris, or some other trauma.
There's a risk of "debris" ejected from the cabin hitting something (maybe the horizontal stabilizer) and making things a whole lot worse.
Great CRM though, keep it up
This would terrify me. I could easily imagine having a panic attack under these circumstances. This would be a lot more than I signed up for when I got on the flight, and even though the logical part of my brain might accept that we are not getting sucked out of the plane at that altitude, the less logical part of my brain is going to initiate rapid breathing.
Can we establish a common understanding of MINIMUM BASIC CIVILITY AND SAFETY? Don't open the door while the plane is still flying. Don't light things on fire. Don't yell at or physically harm the flight attendants. Don't engage in rude behavior toward or physically harm other passengers. Is this too much to ask?