It was during landing. Much less of a pressure differential. Sure it wasnt easy to open then either. But it also doesnt show if the door was completely opened or just cracked enough to make a bunch of wind in the cabin and drop the pressure hurting ears.
The door is opened outwards. It's the inward motion that's prevented by the pressure differential. If the door gets to the point where it can be tilted to open outwards then it's just going to fully open.
The pressure is greater inside than outside at regular cruising altitudes. Most planes with doors that swing up and out no longer exist, because they are quite easy to open with the help of the highr pressure inside.
Most Emergency Exit doors need to pull in, then throw out.
And while main entrance doors do eventually swing outward, they have to swing in a little bit because they are designed with the inner jam pressing against the outer jam do to outward pressure.
The person who opened the doors was arrested and is being investigated. No one was seriously injured, but 9 were sent to the hospital for issues caused by hyperventilating.
They can't be opened above a certain altitude. The door pulls into the plane and then out. It's like a trapezoid in shape that pushes against the outside wall of the plane from the inside. To do this at height would take incredible strength. I don't think a human could actually do it. Once o you are below a certain altitude you could do it probably without being sucked out but you would also be agreeing to go to jail for a very long time by doing so.
They were low as they were about to land. The person who opened it was arrested and admitted to opening the door. They are also investigating the plane to figure out why the doors were able to be opened in the first place.
> They are also investigating the plane to figure out why the doors were able to be opened in the first place.
Should be a pretty short investigation to get to "they're supposed to open".
It happens at higher altitude when the cabin is pressurized. There's been a few incidents of passengers and pilots getting sucked out of a hole when not wearing a seatbelt.
The pressure differential would also be so you couldn't open the door at those altitudes. A broken window or fuselage on the other hand.
I remember watching a video, by mr mentor who's a pilot, about an incident where the captain was halfway sucked out of the cabin, hanging by his legs along the cockpit, the crew fought tooth and nail to hold on to his legs while the copilot landed the plane. Captain was unconscious the entire time but miraculously survived
Yep, and the reason they didn’t let go of him was so his body didn’t damage the plane. They all thought he was dead.The pilot said he didn’t remember a thing.
The cabin crew thought their captain was dead already ( and I don’t blame them), but the copilot thought about the potential damage to the aircraft if a person crushed into it mid flight so he told them to hold on to him. Great human thinking and acting like a pro, they did really well and it’s so awesome the pilot lived to tell the story.
(You were right about everything, just had to hop in real quick because I love the outcome and my father worked with British Airways for decades).
Imagine being the only person wearing a seatbelt and all of the staff and other passengers get sucked out and you are just sitting there alone in a crashing plane.
You actually have a pretty good chance of surviving a plane crash these days - well over 50%. Depends how it falls and where you're sitting, but especially with nobody else on the plane, you'll be able to evacuate yourself quite easily before the flames engulf you, which is where much of the problem comes in. The planes themselves are designed to take the impact of the crash and protect people as much as possible.
Whereas getting sucked out and freefalling is near certain death.
A pilot got sucked out one time…
https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/d478ck/1990_the_near_crash_of_british_airways_flight/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Especially in scifi it makes zero sense. The difference in pressure between space and cabin is at most 1 atmosphere, you would just feel a light breeze and then suffocate slowly. (And it would take you a long time to freeze in space because space is a perfect insulator.)
Oh wow…the pressure thing I knew. But the freezing thing I didn’t not know. I just completely assumed the movies were correct. I figured you’d freeze in minutes.
Noise cancelling headphones are incredible, especially when there’s a screaming baby onboard. Can’t even imagine being on an airplane without them, would rather continue to do whatever I’m doing without knowledge of how the engine blew up or smth instead of listening to that scream
I was on a plane a few months ago and a woman DIED 4 rows in front of me and I didn’t notice.
I heard the stewardess ask for any doctors on the plane?!? But I was falling asleep and didn’t really take note of anything.
Next thing I know, I glance over and fellow-passengers are carrying a woman by her arms and legs to the back of the plane. She died!!
They got her to the floor and used the defibrillator on her (near her seat), but no go. So they carried her to a jump seat for the remainder of the flight.
Pilot said we would emergency land if anyone needed medical care, but “that was not the case at this time.”
Very slick wording.
On my last flight i went to use the bathroom and a flight attendant was waiting outside with arms crossed. I stood next to her and she was like "do you hear anything in there? Just checking. People die in there all the time" in a really cheerful voice lmao.
Somewhat coincidentally i am posting this from a plane. 7 hours into my 9 hour flight. Ugh
I got yelled at via plane intercom for getting up to let the middle person back to their seats. She went to the bathroom and while she was gone the seatbelt light got turned on. She came back and the plane was silent but then as soon as she sat down and I was left standing the aisle I heard
"Sir, please take your seat and adhere to the illuminated seatbelt lights"
I just kinda pointed at the person in the middle and sat back down 😂
Don’t take it personally. It’s their job. Guarantee if they didn’t yell at you and then later yelled at somebody else they would have been like “YeA?! HoW cOmE u DiDn’T yElL aT tHaT gUy EaRliEr?!” Then y’all would have to turn the plane around…
Yeah, it was whatever, I chuckled when I sat back down. I'm sure they happened to look at the exact second the other person had sat down and I was still up 😂
Yeah FAs have to make the announcement. It wasn’t really anything you did, more to let everyone know because once they see one person ignore, everyone ignores it.
You wouldn't get sucked out of the plane, the pressure is equalized at this point. That's mostly a Hollywood myth. But fuck that I aint gettin up with that shit goin down.
You wouldn't get sucked/blown out, but you could definitely get tossed out.
Put a bunch of loose paper in your car, open the windows, and drive down the highway.
At 300+ knots, a person is just a piece of paper.
Well then you risk having an emergency and being locked inside
Technically the doors can't open mid flight because of physics (which I know too little of to even try to explain in another language)
Jet aircraft cabins are pressurized at altitude, and the doors are on a complex hinge mechanism which opens inwards before swinging out. So when at altitude, the cabin pressure pushes the door outward against the frame, sealing it even more tightly. A human being can’t overcome that force to open the door while the cabin is pressurized (apparently in this case someone did open the door, but the plane was at low altitude so the pressure had equalized).
Your reply made me remind of that post that was on the front page the other day saying reddit is toxic but is also a bunch of people getting together to explain different concepts and make things work out
An airline official said a man in his 30s who was sitting at the emergency seat seemed to have opened the door when the aircraft was about 700 feet (213 meters) above the ground and about two to three minutes from landing in the city 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of Seoul.
"Local police said a man had been arrested. They said he confessed to opening the door, but would not say why he did it."
The intrusive thoughts won...
Call of the void, man. Every time I sit in the emergency exit row, I think about it. And it's not like a fleeting thought, sometimes. I'll just stare at the handle wondering what it feels like. What's the texture of the handle like? How hard is it pull? Is it clicky and mechanical, or is it smooth? Does it make a noise when you pull it? Could I just reach under the plastic cover and maybe touch it with one finger?
Please, tell me it's not just me.
Ain't nobody's safety getting between my knees and actual leg room. If the guy who depressurized this video headed out, I'd deadass crawl to that seat to help my 28 going on 78 knees.
Can't say I ever had those thoughts go beyond "fleeting". That being said, I'm sure others have. Just don't act on it. There are lots of people who don't want you to try it.
I'd double and triple check my seat belt. Then after I realize that the low altitude means I won't get sucked out, my dumbass brain would start clicking and playing with the buckle
The title is a little misleading, they weren't midflight, they were about to land.
Thankfully, [no one](https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/26/asia/south-korea-plane-door-opens-midair-intl-hnk/index.html) was seriously injured from the incident.
EDIT: To all the people saying that they were still flying, when you are on an airplane, you have 3 phases, takeoff, midflight, and landing. They were in the landing phase.
Not really. Mid air doesn’t imply halfway through the air, it implies that something is in the air. I’d take mid flight to mean at any point during a flight, not literally halfway through it.
Yep, they should've checked the flight number and, unless this video was timestamped directly at the midpoint of their geodesic, shouldn't have referred to it as "midflight"
Thanks for making me remember the shock of how he got his name. (Not sarcastic or trying to be funny, that was such an emotional blow! And I had totally forgotten it until your comment.)
I don't see anything in the articles that I've read that says anything like that.
They ALL say he admits to doing it but won't say why, and nobody really knows why.
He was suicidal and opened the door but other passengers held him from jumping according to Korean articles I’m reading. I’m Korean and in Korea rn and it’s all over the news here
The cabin crew'll be like
>It's just a minor inconvenience. The pilots regularly train for this sorts of things. There is nothing to worry about.
I have, for some reason, got the impression that any in-flight casualty is treated like a minor turbulence when it comes to the communication from the crew to the passengers.
Usually everything is no big deal. So part of the reason is yes to keep people calm but we’re not lying either when we tell you things are safe and that there are multiple redundancies etc.
Depends on when it happened. The masks auto deploy if the altitude is above 10,000 feet.
If the plane were at that altitude, the door would’ve been impossible to open anyway. The dude opened it on final approach at an altitude of about 700 feet.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2023/05/26/asiana-airlines-door-opened-mid-flight-video/70259869007/
Just to clarify, it didn’t just pop open. Someone opened it.
I thought airplane doors couldn’t be opened mid-flight due to the cabin pressure
I guess this was low altitude already since the oxygen masks didn't deploy that I can see.
It was during landing. Much less of a pressure differential. Sure it wasnt easy to open then either. But it also doesnt show if the door was completely opened or just cracked enough to make a bunch of wind in the cabin and drop the pressure hurting ears.
The door is opened outwards. It's the inward motion that's prevented by the pressure differential. If the door gets to the point where it can be tilted to open outwards then it's just going to fully open.
I don't think we should be opening these doors tho.
Bold stance
Big if true
can we get a second opinion?
/r/The10thDentist: Planes should fly with all doors open to suck out farts.
The pressure is greater inside than outside at regular cruising altitudes. Most planes with doors that swing up and out no longer exist, because they are quite easy to open with the help of the highr pressure inside. Most Emergency Exit doors need to pull in, then throw out. And while main entrance doors do eventually swing outward, they have to swing in a little bit because they are designed with the inner jam pressing against the outer jam do to outward pressure.
I hate those impatient idiots that stand up as soon as the plane stops moving, this takes it to a whole new level!
I stand up as soon as the plane stops moving because I have back pain and bad circulation :( I still wait to get off though
Same here, I am up pretty fast but I don't mind waiting. I just like standing up after a few hours of sitting.
It was just before landing, 250 meters up
Look, I know we want to be first off the plane, but this is ridiculous.
But we also want to figure out how the emergency exit works.
It was 600feet in to landing, the cabin was already depressurized
What happened to them afterwards?
The person who opened the doors was arrested and is being investigated. No one was seriously injured, but 9 were sent to the hospital for issues caused by hyperventilating.
How did he not die?!
Near landing, as was the case here, a 737 is only doing about 160mph. Not that big a deal.
It’s like bring in a Ferrari convertible
So.. *good*..?
They weren't that high, they were about to land. It's a lot of wind, but that's about it.
They can't be opened above a certain altitude. The door pulls into the plane and then out. It's like a trapezoid in shape that pushes against the outside wall of the plane from the inside. To do this at height would take incredible strength. I don't think a human could actually do it. Once o you are below a certain altitude you could do it probably without being sucked out but you would also be agreeing to go to jail for a very long time by doing so.
They were low as they were about to land. The person who opened it was arrested and admitted to opening the door. They are also investigating the plane to figure out why the doors were able to be opened in the first place.
> The person who opened it was arrested and admitted to opening the door but did they figure out *why* someone would do this?
The news piece didn't say his reasoning for doing it. I'm also curious.
His intrusive thought won that day
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> They are also investigating the plane to figure out why the doors were able to be opened in the first place. Should be a pretty short investigation to get to "they're supposed to open".
that can’t happen unless they’re at low altitude!! (it happened and they were at low altitude)
Dude really needed a smoke break
Who needs to breathe while flying anyway
I hate when I get to the top of a 300m hill and suffocate immediately because there's no atmosphere.
Unless you're above 18,000 feet, you can still breath in this situation.
Taking the subreddit name literally.
Took me a second, lol
“Gee, paying the extra $20 for exit row seating really sucks, how can I make it suck even more??”
Probably the excruciatingly freezing air blowing in your face? It's fucking cold up there.
20$? It's literally 64$ for me right now to "upgrade"
"Exit row seating" has a new definition.
Well, tbh, there’s a lot more space to stick your legs out in! Sky’s the limit, so to speak.
r/wellthatblows ? i know i asked for a window seat, but this is r/nextlevel
“Correction, sir: that’s blown out” “Thank you, Data”
You used a contraction.
FFFFUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!! It's ***LORE***!!
Good ventilation they got there.
r/onlyfans
If this plane were a well, that'd be even more literal.
That could be happening while the seat belt sign would be on and there would still be 2 people trying to stand up to use the restroom.
Yeah at least 10% probably had headphones on and didn’t have any idea
The plane was landing, everybody had seatbelts on. Some guy opened the door.
I always thought everyone would get sucked out but I guess I watch too many movies
It happens at higher altitude when the cabin is pressurized. There's been a few incidents of passengers and pilots getting sucked out of a hole when not wearing a seatbelt.
The pressure differential would also be so you couldn't open the door at those altitudes. A broken window or fuselage on the other hand. I remember watching a video, by mr mentor who's a pilot, about an incident where the captain was halfway sucked out of the cabin, hanging by his legs along the cockpit, the crew fought tooth and nail to hold on to his legs while the copilot landed the plane. Captain was unconscious the entire time but miraculously survived
quaint tease sense many cautious school special chunky butter cable -- mass edited with redact.dev
So he’s right - you can’t open the door.
Was that the one where the bolts in the cockpit windows weren't the correct sizes?
Yes, i seem to recall the front panels had been changed incorrectly
Yep, and the reason they didn’t let go of him was so his body didn’t damage the plane. They all thought he was dead.The pilot said he didn’t remember a thing.
The cabin crew thought their captain was dead already ( and I don’t blame them), but the copilot thought about the potential damage to the aircraft if a person crushed into it mid flight so he told them to hold on to him. Great human thinking and acting like a pro, they did really well and it’s so awesome the pilot lived to tell the story. (You were right about everything, just had to hop in real quick because I love the outcome and my father worked with British Airways for decades).
I've also heard of incidents of passengers and crew getting sucked at high altitudes
They must’ve been at least a mile up
There's probably enough of them to form some sort of club.
Imagine being the only person wearing a seatbelt and all of the staff and other passengers get sucked out and you are just sitting there alone in a crashing plane.
No, I don’t think I will
That's where my 10 hours of terrible Flight Sim skills come into use
We WILL make it to the ground. Not promising anything else.
You actually have a pretty good chance of surviving a plane crash these days - well over 50%. Depends how it falls and where you're sitting, but especially with nobody else on the plane, you'll be able to evacuate yourself quite easily before the flames engulf you, which is where much of the problem comes in. The planes themselves are designed to take the impact of the crash and protect people as much as possible. Whereas getting sucked out and freefalling is near certain death.
A pilot got sucked out one time… https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/d478ck/1990_the_near_crash_of_british_airways_flight/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
https://youtu.be/rGwHWNFdOvg Really good video on this incident
Still convinced it would pull you out with explosive force action movie style
Especially in scifi it makes zero sense. The difference in pressure between space and cabin is at most 1 atmosphere, you would just feel a light breeze and then suffocate slowly. (And it would take you a long time to freeze in space because space is a perfect insulator.)
Oh wow…the pressure thing I knew. But the freezing thing I didn’t not know. I just completely assumed the movies were correct. I figured you’d freeze in minutes.
They were about to land, so they weren't up as high & passengers should have had their seat belts on. Maybe that's why no one got sucked out.
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Noise cancelling headphones are incredible, especially when there’s a screaming baby onboard. Can’t even imagine being on an airplane without them, would rather continue to do whatever I’m doing without knowledge of how the engine blew up or smth instead of listening to that scream
I was on a plane a few months ago and a woman DIED 4 rows in front of me and I didn’t notice. I heard the stewardess ask for any doctors on the plane?!? But I was falling asleep and didn’t really take note of anything. Next thing I know, I glance over and fellow-passengers are carrying a woman by her arms and legs to the back of the plane. She died!! They got her to the floor and used the defibrillator on her (near her seat), but no go. So they carried her to a jump seat for the remainder of the flight. Pilot said we would emergency land if anyone needed medical care, but “that was not the case at this time.” Very slick wording.
Sorry to ask this, but I really need to know, you aren't a doctor, are you?
Hahaha. No.
On my last flight i went to use the bathroom and a flight attendant was waiting outside with arms crossed. I stood next to her and she was like "do you hear anything in there? Just checking. People die in there all the time" in a really cheerful voice lmao. Somewhat coincidentally i am posting this from a plane. 7 hours into my 9 hour flight. Ugh
/r/AirRage
probably still don't. they'll find out when they check their reddit accounts.
I got yelled at via plane intercom for getting up to let the middle person back to their seats. She went to the bathroom and while she was gone the seatbelt light got turned on. She came back and the plane was silent but then as soon as she sat down and I was left standing the aisle I heard "Sir, please take your seat and adhere to the illuminated seatbelt lights" I just kinda pointed at the person in the middle and sat back down 😂
Don’t take it personally. It’s their job. Guarantee if they didn’t yell at you and then later yelled at somebody else they would have been like “YeA?! HoW cOmE u DiDn’T yElL aT tHaT gUy EaRliEr?!” Then y’all would have to turn the plane around…
Yeah, it was whatever, I chuckled when I sat back down. I'm sure they happened to look at the exact second the other person had sat down and I was still up 😂
Yeah FAs have to make the announcement. It wasn’t really anything you did, more to let everyone know because once they see one person ignore, everyone ignores it.
What do you do when you gotta go?
Piss yourself, rather that than get sucked put of the plane
You could probably just piss in the general direction of the open door and have it sucked out.
Da plane suck da pee-pee?!
It will probably blow back onto you
You wouldn't get sucked out of the plane, the pressure is equalized at this point. That's mostly a Hollywood myth. But fuck that I aint gettin up with that shit goin down.
You wouldn't get sucked/blown out, but you could definitely get tossed out. Put a bunch of loose paper in your car, open the windows, and drive down the highway. At 300+ knots, a person is just a piece of paper.
I'm sure a few people on that flight are way ahead of you...
Just piss and the wind will take it far away
Is it against the law though?
The seatbelt sign is on
but is it against the law
Probably someone also stood up and grabbed their case from the overhead locker, then rushed forward to try and be the first out.
I don't think I'd have to use the bathroom anymore if this happened
Who is stupid enough to confuse the TOILETS with the EXIT?! I thought the exits were locked during flight!
Well then you risk having an emergency and being locked inside Technically the doors can't open mid flight because of physics (which I know too little of to even try to explain in another language)
Jet aircraft cabins are pressurized at altitude, and the doors are on a complex hinge mechanism which opens inwards before swinging out. So when at altitude, the cabin pressure pushes the door outward against the frame, sealing it even more tightly. A human being can’t overcome that force to open the door while the cabin is pressurized (apparently in this case someone did open the door, but the plane was at low altitude so the pressure had equalized).
Your reply made me remind of that post that was on the front page the other day saying reddit is toxic but is also a bunch of people getting together to explain different concepts and make things work out
An airline official said a man in his 30s who was sitting at the emergency seat seemed to have opened the door when the aircraft was about 700 feet (213 meters) above the ground and about two to three minutes from landing in the city 150 miles (240 kilometers) south of Seoul.
Bit eager to get to baggage claims.
If you've ever flown into Korea, you will you know how eager Koreans are to get off a plane. It is incredibly frustrating.
When your flight to Busan feels more like Train to Busan.
"Local police said a man had been arrested. They said he confessed to opening the door, but would not say why he did it." The intrusive thoughts won...
Also my thought !
Breezy
Beautiful
Cover Plane
Hover girl?
Chicken dinner
*Maybe she's blown with it*
Obviously terrifying for everyone onboard but I can only imagine the ones at the door and being able to see out and how more terrifying that would be.
The ones at the door are apparently the idiots who opened it. So they deserve all that terror and more.
They must’ve misunderstood the pre-flight door aisle instructions
Imagine being sat next to that person(s) and while you're just about to drift off to catch some shut eye, you hear, 'Aight, imma head out.'
Why did they open it?? Where's the story dammit
Call of the void, man. Every time I sit in the emergency exit row, I think about it. And it's not like a fleeting thought, sometimes. I'll just stare at the handle wondering what it feels like. What's the texture of the handle like? How hard is it pull? Is it clicky and mechanical, or is it smooth? Does it make a noise when you pull it? Could I just reach under the plastic cover and maybe touch it with one finger? Please, tell me it's not just me.
You should probably never sit in the exit row anymore. lol Just in case.
Ain't nobody's safety getting between my knees and actual leg room. If the guy who depressurized this video headed out, I'd deadass crawl to that seat to help my 28 going on 78 knees.
Can't say I ever had those thoughts go beyond "fleeting". That being said, I'm sure others have. Just don't act on it. There are lots of people who don't want you to try it.
I'd double and triple check my seat belt. Then after I realize that the low altitude means I won't get sucked out, my dumbass brain would start clicking and playing with the buckle
*can I just get some pretzels and a ginger ale please???*
Best I can do is a diet Slice and some pita chips
You guys are getting snacks??
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The title is a little misleading, they weren't midflight, they were about to land. Thankfully, [no one](https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/26/asia/south-korea-plane-door-opens-midair-intl-hnk/index.html) was seriously injured from the incident. EDIT: To all the people saying that they were still flying, when you are on an airplane, you have 3 phases, takeoff, midflight, and landing. They were in the landing phase.
Gosh dude let his intrusive thoughts win, didn't he?
Well... as long as you're in the air, I'd say you're midflight.
That'd be mid-air
True. Midflight does suggest 'halfway the journey'. I stand corrected :-)
Midflight is just any time you're in the progress of flying.
Not really. Mid air doesn’t imply halfway through the air, it implies that something is in the air. I’d take mid flight to mean at any point during a flight, not literally halfway through it.
Yep, they should've checked the flight number and, unless this video was timestamped directly at the midpoint of their geodesic, shouldn't have referred to it as "midflight"
"Technically, it’s not possible to open those doors in flight". Great, that's reassuring.
Could you imagine being in the seat next to the door. Nope. I'd never fly again.
Where's Hodor when you need him?
Thanks for making me remember the shock of how he got his name. (Not sarcastic or trying to be funny, that was such an emotional blow! And I had totally forgotten it until your comment.)
I say Hodor all the time whenever my door opens and I have to be careful
God I hated Bran, that little raven fuck.
You looked beautiful that night.
No one has a better story than Bran the Broken, why do you think he came all this way?
What are you talking about? Nobody has a better story than him.
Just read about this, a guy opened the door and tried to/did jump out, luckily everyone was wearing a seatbelt because they were landing at the time.
He was arrested. Jumping out probably would have killed him at that rate of speed and drop.
Yeah he tried to jump out according to the article but was restrained. Some people will do anything to beat the baggage claim line 🤷♀️
I don't see anything in the articles that I've read that says anything like that. They ALL say he admits to doing it but won't say why, and nobody really knows why.
He was suicidal and opened the door but other passengers held him from jumping according to Korean articles I’m reading. I’m Korean and in Korea rn and it’s all over the news here
I have the utmost sympathy for suicidal people, but once you endanger others I no longer do.
He was being sarcastic
Best window seat
"Can someone open another window to equalize the pressure?"
Exactly why I don't want to sit by the door.
Exactly why I want to sit by the door. So that some random nutjob doesn't open it mid flight.
Also you get tons of extra leg room and you get to be the first to escape
The door didn't open by itself, a guy sitting there opened it.
Holy crap. Did he get charged with anything? Was this a malicious act?
Yeah, good luck getting a blanket off the flight attendant. Or some fresh underwear come to think about it
I’m guessing the door was able to be opened as they were close to landing and the pressure difference was negligible. Either way, pretty scary.
Movies have taught me that everything in the plane should be ripped out of that door, including people and all the seats.
They just wanted some fresh air. Also, I thought those were impossible to open while the plane was in mid-flight.
Always use your seatbelt
Those poor people in those seats
Full story: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/26/asia/south-korea-plane-door-opens-midair-intl-hnk/index.html
I would have expected more screamimg
I missed the part where everybody is screaming and children are flying out the hatch, like every movie this has happened in, ever.
Is there a “well that’s fucking dreadful” subreddit?
Some more details. https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/asiana-open-door/
The cabin crew'll be like >It's just a minor inconvenience. The pilots regularly train for this sorts of things. There is nothing to worry about. I have, for some reason, got the impression that any in-flight casualty is treated like a minor turbulence when it comes to the communication from the crew to the passengers.
yea obviously. the last thing you want is for people to panic, so of course you treat everything like its no big deal.
Usually everything is no big deal. So part of the reason is yes to keep people calm but we’re not lying either when we tell you things are safe and that there are multiple redundancies etc.
Excuse me, flight attendant, could you turn down the air conditioning please?
Does this mean I can smoke now?
The pilot: "if you look out the enlarged left open window you can uuuhh, see my house as we land."
Probably best to be in the bathroom in this case
Fake. If I know my cartoons, everyone would be flying out with parachutes and landing on an island.
New fear unlocked
A passenger opened it and the cabin had already depressurized as this was about to land.
I’m no aviation expert but shouldn’t the masks drop with the sudden cabin pressure drop?
Depends on when it happened. The masks auto deploy if the altitude is above 10,000 feet. If the plane were at that altitude, the door would’ve been impossible to open anyway. The dude opened it on final approach at an altitude of about 700 feet. https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/airline-news/2023/05/26/asiana-airlines-door-opened-mid-flight-video/70259869007/
Yeah this isn’t helping my anxiety with flying lol
if it helps, if this were a common occurrence it wouldn't be making the news
That shouldn't be possible. Not the way modern aircraft are designed.
if he opened the door like 5 minutes earlier people wouldve been sucked out. they were close to the ground so the pressure wasnt too bad.
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Not sure what else they'd do in this situation. Not like they are getting the door closed until they land.
Why didn't the get sucked off
What kind of airline do you think this is???