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Possible scenario?
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One scenario I have not heard yet is that the pilot took out a huge life insurance policy and planned this reroute on the computer to fly back over Malaysia where he dropped altitude and speed to where he D. B. A+oopered out and parachutes to a place where he could be picked up. The reprogrammed plane then continued towards the south pole until it runs out of fuel and goes into the ocean. The pilots life policy is collected and shared in new assumed identities.
What do you all think about that?
What do you all think about that?
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like the show Lost
[;)]
just joshing
Since the 777 has NO doors that can be opened in flight, your idea sucks ditch water.
Maybe he rolled down a window.....
Brad Steele
quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
Since the 777 has NO doors that can be opened in flight, your idea sucks ditch water.
Maybe he rolled down a window.....
...or attached himself to the landing gear and opened the hatch. I have seen this method used on bugs bunny.
quote:Originally posted by Don McManus
quote:Originally posted by Rocky Raab
Since the 777 has NO doors that can be opened in flight, your idea sucks ditch water.
Maybe he rolled down a window.....
...or attached himself to the landing gear and opened the hatch. I have seen this method used on bugs bunny.
[:D]
Within seconds of an aircraft lifting off, the cabin begins to pressurize - which means the pressure inside the cabin is much greater than the pressure outside. Opening a pressurized cabin door is impossible because of the fail-safe design of the door. Aircraft doors are larger than their openings. To open the door, it has to be moved in and turned slightly before it can be pushed out and opened. A human being - even a large, strong one or even several of them - would not be able to exert enough force on the door handle to overcome the cabin pressurization and open the door. So while the Alaska Airline passengers may have heard an ominous hissing sound of some air escaping when the door seal was apparently broken, there was no actual danger of the aircraft door being opened.
Aircraft begin to depressurize as they begin their descent to land but are not fully depressurized until they land, which is why their doors cannot be opened even when the aircraft is close to the ground. But once, the wheels touch down, the depressurization is usually complete and an aircraft door is capable of being opened as some Toronto passengers found out early Monday morning when a Sunwing aircraft landed at Pearson International Airport in Toronto and a man apparently jumped out as the aircraft was taxiing to the gate.
So what about the theory that they depressurized the passenger area to kill all the Passengers. Would not that then allow the door to open if they were flying low to the ground.
Just sayin'
(I'm not familiar with the 777, but I seriously doubt there's any way to deliberately depressurize one at altitude.)
quote:Passengers may have had a scare on Alaska Airlines Flight 132 from Anchorage to Portland, Oregon when a fellow passenger tried to open the aircraft door in flight. But they need not have been worried about the door opening. Aircraft doors on pressurized aircraft -basically all airline aircraft - are designed to be fail-safe and impossible to open once the wheels leave the ground.
Within seconds of an aircraft lifting off, the cabin begins to pressurize - which means the pressure inside the cabin is much greater than the pressure outside. Opening a pressurized cabin door is impossible because of the fail-safe design of the door. Aircraft doors are larger than their openings. To open the door, it has to be moved in and turned slightly before it can be pushed out and opened. A human being - even a large, strong one or even several of them - would not be able to exert enough force on the door handle to overcome the cabin pressurization and open the door. So while the Alaska Airline passengers may have heard an ominous hissing sound of some air escaping when the door seal was apparently broken, there was no actual danger of the aircraft door being opened.
Aircraft begin to depressurize as they begin their descent to land but are not fully depressurized until they land, which is why their doors cannot be opened even when the aircraft is close to the ground. But once, the wheels touch down, the depressurization is usually complete and an aircraft door is capable of being opened as some Toronto passengers found out early Monday morning when a Sunwing aircraft landed at Pearson International Airport in Toronto and a man apparently jumped out as the aircraft was taxiing to the gate.
So what about the theory that they depressurized the passenger area to kill all the Passengers. Would not that then allow the door to open if they were flying low to the ground.
In theory yes. Jumping from a 777 is however a dicey proposition at best. Unlike DB cooper who went down the back landing stairs, the only real option on the 777 are the doors just aft of the wing. (The 2 in front of the wing would suck you into the engine and the back 2 doors would feed you to the horizontal stabilizer) Even then the risk of hitting the stabilizer is substantial.