Emergency exits on planes

[Mr_White]

My friend once told me when he was younger he was on a plane and someone opened the emergency door and the pressure made someone's head fall off and go flying out the door and then the air steward lady closed the door and it was all ok...apart from the person with no head.

He was probably lying though.

Is your friend Karl Pilkington?

 

[OliP]

Is your friend Karl Pilkington?

Ricky Gervais show fan by any chance?

 

[Red Porsche]

Ricky Gervais show fan by any chance?

Sherlock Holmes By Any Chance?

 

[The Dread Pirate]

...Then I look up and see this kid tapping on my head. Loose on the ****in' plane he's just loose. It's his little playground in the sky and he has decided it's his job to repetetively tap me on the head. I look over the isle at his mother shes smiling the guy next to her pipes up and says "They're so cute when they're that small." Then the kid runs over and starts fliking the handle to the door, The guy next to the mum starts to get up and I say "Wait a minuite... We're about to learn a very important lesson here." *Boosh* "Arghhh!" "Boy your right the smaller he gets the cuter he is. God I wish I had A camera... With a Telescopic lens. I'd Love to see his face when his pudgy lil' legs hit that farmhouse down there. Ahh Kids."

I'll get my coat

 

[Col_M]

Thank god planes are fly by wire now

There are still quite a few passenger aircraft still in use that use hydro-mechanical systems are there not? Boeing's 737 and 747 for example.

 

[mrk]

lmao, what a random thread, i would move seats just incase tho . You never knoiw if a terrorist is onboard !!!

Then it would not matter where you sit LOL.

 

[Ex-RoNiN]

Doesnt stop the hydraulics which are controlled by the electronics from failing.

Eh? Fly by wire means the flaps/rudder/whatnots are controlled by electric motors, not hydraulic liquid

 

[JUMPURS]

lmao, what a random thread, i would move seats just incase tho . You never knoiw if a terrorist is onboard !!!

Well if a terrorist was wanting to open the emergency exit, i'd like to be sat in that seat and let him try getting near me. I hate flying and i would rip anyone appart who tries to do something stupid.

 

[Biohazard]

My friend once told me when he was younger he was on a plane and someone opened the emergency door and the pressure made someone's head fall off and go flying out the door and then the air steward lady closed the door and it was all ok...apart from the person with no head.

He was probably lying though.

roflcopterz!

 

[Wiggins]

My friend once told me when he was younger he was on a plane and someone opened the emergency door and the pressure made someone's head fall off and go flying out the door and then the air steward lady closed the door and it was all ok...apart from the person with no head.

He was probably lying though.

Very funny.

 

[Kerplunk]

Very funny.

Wiggins, my Verwood buddy lol

I added you on MSN but u never accepted lol

 

[Wiggins]

Wiggins, my Verwood buddy lol

I added you on MSN but u never accepted lol

Oooooohhh ermm.

**Fires up MSN**

 

[iraiguana]

I thought they had tried to retro fit systems with fly by wire controls with hydraulic systems? I could be mistaken though.

 

[the_worrier]

I have experienced (very) rapid decompression from a cabin altitude of 26K feet. There was a very loud bang and water vapour / mist appeared almost instantly in the air in front of me! We then carried out tests to establish our 'usefulness' under progressive hypoxia (we took off the oxygen masks and did mental arithmetic tests). As i became more and more hypoxic my vision dimmed, i felt hot and clammy, i had a loud buzzing in my ears. The Doctor in the chamber with us had to put my oxygen mask back on for me!

 

[MikeTAD]

Yep...many years ago I experienced rapid decompression (at Farnborough) too. It was an interesting exercise...you do not understand how you are being affected by the lack of oxygen...it only takes a comparatively short time for the human brain to go from rapidly progressively stupid, to unconcious, to dead...

 

[Ex-RoNiN]

Yep...many years ago I experienced rapid decompression (at Farnborough) too. It was an interesting exercise...you do not understand how you are being affected by the lack of oxygen...it only takes a comparatively short time for the human brain to go from rapidly progressively stupid, to unconcious, to dead...

Hence immediate nose-first dive to 10k feet.

 

[chimaera]

I'm sure i saw this tested on mythbusters and they found that it was impossible to use human strength to open the door with the pressures involved.

I remember feeling quite glad because similarly to the OP i always fly exit row and get proper paranoid thinking that someone might come over and flip the handle over

 

[markoboyo11]

Simple solution = Ban all Muslims from planes

totaly

 

[Blinkz]

lol these threads about aviation are always so funny.

It depends what exits your talking about. As has been said, all of exits on the aircraft are plug designed, and so the pressure actually holds them closed. It would take a force of a number of tons to open them at altitude. The windows over the wings (on a 737 anyway) also have a locking mechanism that lock them when their isn't any weight on the wheels.

Fly-by-wire doesn't mean that the controls are powered by electic motors. It means that the aren't physical links between the control column/stick in the cockpit and the controls. E.g the Airbus A320 sends signals from the flight deck to the flight controls using electro-hydraulic units that power the flight controls. The 737 has actual cables that run from the controls to the flying surfaces. Also, pretty much all airliners have hydraulic flying controls as the pressure needed to move the controls when actually flying is pretty big.