Alaska flight incident reveals another feature Boeing didn't inform pilots about
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Federal investigators said that Boeing didn't make pilots aware that when a plane rapidly depressurizes, the cockpit door will fly open.

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.eeEnglish
    111·
    1 year ago

    Then make them larger.

    It’s not even technically challenging. Just a couple tubes of appropriate diameter with a dog leg in them if they’re too large. Or multiple small tubes. It’s a few psi (IIRC planes are about 10psi at altitude, approx a 7psi differential from outside at 40k ft cruise altitude) albeit a large volume. But the cockpit volume is relatively small, so doesn’t take much time to equalize, and once it starts to equize, the force from pressure drops quickly, probably non-linearly.

    Decompression in planes is awfully exaggerated in movies.