Why you can’t open airplane doors
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Have you ever been on a plane and just needed to get out? Maybe you needed some air or maybe you required more space. If the thought of simply opening the passenger door has crossed your mind, you better drop your hand from the doorknob before you do something dangerous.
At the extremely high altitudes and speeds that planes travel, opening a door would cause disastrous results such as rapid decompression, which would depressurize the plane cabin in seconds. This would result in a strong suction pull from the outside.
This means that all loose objects and anyone who is not wearing a seatbelt would be sucked out of the plane. But it would not be just the lives of the passengers not wearing seatbelts that would be in danger.
The plane would begin to deteriorate due to the pressure difference, putting the lives of the remaining passengers in peril. Cabin temperature would quickly decrease to frostbite-inducing levels, and less oxygen would be available to breathe as the air is thinner at high altitudes. Hypoxia would quickly kick in, leading often to death.
Thankfully, even if a passenger were to be unhinged enough to want to open the airplane door, it would be nearly impossible to do so.
Why is this so, and what other safety measures are put into place to ensure plane doors never open? We answer all these questions and more and even bring you the story of a woman who did once try to open a plane door.
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Amongst the many inaccuracies in this video (everyone without a seat belt will be sucked out, the plane will deteriorate etc, LOL, decompression events happen literally once every day somewhere) is also the differential pressure which is in fact around 8 psi in airliners. Shockingly, you arrive at a correct Kgf for the door (~11 tons), not sure how, beginner's luck.
You don't get sucked out, you'r getting blown out by the air that is escaping the plane...
based on today news a passnger did opened the plane door before 2 min of landing
They weren’t at maximum altitude.
"The plane's door is electronically locked and the pilot is the only person who has access" is definitely not the case for obvious safety reasons. In a crash or other emergency situation, the pilots can be killed or incapacitated which would defeat the purpose of having an emergency exit.
Quite a lot of inaccurate information in this video
The pressure in the plane keeps it from being opened at altitude.
Need strength of 6 Hippopotamus
Next time bring 6 hippopotamus in your carry-on.
I'm only here because a madman was attempting to open the exit door during mid-flight
In the case of South African Airways flight 295, they descend to a lower altitude and reduced the aircraft’s speed, as well as depressurising the aircraft. That way, they could crack open the main cabin door to clear the smoke from the cabin, though it probably made their fiery situation worse
thats the first video that said truth you actually can open door at lower hights.nice
Most doors open outwards. So how can higher pressure inside the cabin prevents them opening?
It's called a plug door. Look it up.
@@ghost307 I’ve looked it up. I still don’t understand. The plug is the wrong way surely?
@@jackglossop4859 The door has mechanical panels on it that make it bigger than the opening in the side of the plane. The door is swung into the inside of the plane, the panels are moved into position making the door larger. Then the door is pushed into the opening and latched. Once the air pressure outside is lower than that inside the door is being shoved into a hole that's smaller than the door. At that point you could unlatch the door, but it would remain pinned closed since there's no way it would fit through the opening. Once the plane has landed the door is pulled into the plane, the panels are retracted, and the door can now fit through the opening and be outside the plane for passenger boarding.
There's a video named "Closing airplane door" by avgeek that shows the operation of the door panels (if you can stand the crummy choice of music).
@@ghost307 that makes total sense. Thanks bud.
So .....is the door locked ? Yes or No ?
24,000 pounds.
You might need a city bus to open the door.
Watched this video after the Alaska 1282 incident, a "fake" door plug blew out at 16000 feet partially sucking out a seat with it. This wasn't a door, it was a permanent panel to fill in where an optional door would have been. That God that seat was empty and that it wasn't at cruise altitude. As of that incident 737 max 9s have been grounded by the FAA
Informative video
...too bad virtually everything in it is wrong.
DC-10 be like: First time?
I came here wondering why they don't have parachutes available for when you know the plane is going down. Though allegedly at lower altitudes you could open the doors. I'm still confused on whether it could work?
To properly use a parachute, you need training first which is pretty much already hard, second theres a possible chance that there's a pregnant lady, kids, babies that obviously can't use parachute, and third weight, parachutes will be heavy too and it will cost more fuel for the plane company and ticket prices will increase dramatically.
So yea plane is pretty much safer with no parachute
Very informative 👌
If you can not figure that out, they need your name to not ever sell you a ticket.
yeah now watch this. Video shows plane door opened during flight run that by me once again
Even if you had the strength, the door handle would break off before you could rotate it.
Imma become a pilot so i can open the door
And great informative video, i actually learned alot from it
When i was 8 years old i was traveling through an comercial airplane and ive decided tô open The Back airplane door, i pulled and opened The Red lock of The door the door didnt opened but ive hear a decompression Air i got scared só i decided tô close it again and nothing happened só i go back to my seat. It really happened no joke. Year was 1992
You was a naughty boy😄, Just kidding, no hard feelings
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This didn't age well lol
your mom blocks it
How did DB Cooper do it?
0:03 bro just force door to open (forcing door to open is a offence)
Nice video.
Feel much better now
What is emergency door is opened by some idiot during the flight?
Genius designed it.
What the fuck happen if windows broke?
You use subs bot
What about the story about the really big obese person that like blocked broken or cracked window with their big body and they safely landed the plane that's not true then is it that can't be true cuz it still would have ripped him through that hole no matter how big he was lovely picture huh
Bits of this not accurate at all - you should delete this video
JR
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Aged like milk. Now you officially can 😂
wrong. That plane was NOT at altitude, therefore it was easy to open an no decompression occurred.
"Don't do this on an airplane." Ah, whew. I almost did but then I didn't. Close call.
Can you say, "load of complete shit?" Dude, you have no clue what you're talking about. The only thing you got right was that the door would be basically impossible to open in flight.
It’s true that anyone with a computer can make a video with false information.
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Breaking the windows 😄🤓😉✌🥴
And do what?
Research into these facts was conducted watching Hollywood films.......
Thank you man❤😅😂😅😊🎉😊❤❤😂😅😂😅🎉😊😂
Interesting 👍👍
So don't worry about anybody trying to open the doors so sit back and relax and enjoy the little bump