Let me ouuuuttttttttt

      • TillieNeuen [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        The article said that if they had been higher up, the door wouldn't have been able to open because of air pressure. I don't know if that's true or not, but I'm going to tell myself it is.

        • VILenin [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          As long as you’re able to exert 80000 pounds of force opening the door mid flight is no problem

          • familiar [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Biggest danger is someone being pulled out, or potentially sucked out of the opening. Oxygen masks would drop from above, so as long as everyone can stay in their seats (always wear your seatbelt!) and get that in place, the pilots would immediately descend to a safe altitude and get on the ground ASAP. It would be a breezy ride like shown in the video, but as long as nobody falls through the open door (which would be difficult, if not impossible to open at altitude in the first place) then it's not a critical issue.

            A real life comparison would be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloha_Airlines_Flight_243, the damage in the photos is pretty impressive.

            In this incident, the entire top of the plane was ripped off due to a structural defect, and unfortunately a flight attendant, who was not seated since she was serving passengers, was sucked out of the plane. Even with this catastrophic failure of the fuselage, and the loss of an engine (I presume because the electronics failed or something from the giant hole), there was not an immediate threat to the airworthiness of the aircraft, and the pilots landed safely.

              • familiar [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                You don't hear too much about the crashes where people survive:

                • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Air_Lines_Flight_1141 - Plane got up to 400 feet after takeoff and then came back down. 94 survivors, 14 dead, primarily to smoke inhalation
                • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_173- Plane ran out of fuel on landing, crashes in the woods in the middle of the city, 179 survivors, 10 dead

                I find them as interesting as the ones that are horrifying.