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Well...that's sorta....funny

Clicky!

I read that last week. Didn't know whether to believe it or not. :-/

It's not the first time this is supposed to have happened. http://www.snopes.com/travel/airline/fireaxe.asp

LMAO, I wonder if the FO was a newbie. I bet he was brickin it thinkin he was gonna be on his own for the rest of the flight.

JB

Its a pretty common thing on CRJ's. The doors are known to get stuck pretty often, and this was just a slightly more serious case, where they couldn't get the door to open atall, simple solution, and used by many CRJ pilots. Take the door of the hinges, it's what the door is designed to do in an emergency, so not a problem and they could just slip it back on. Bear in mind, there were two personell in the flightdeck when it happened, the Captain and a steward/ess, which it following FAA law, the passenger's were in no real danger atall. Just media hype.

|Alex|

Its a pretty common thing on CRJ's. The doors are known to get stuck pretty often, and this was just a slightly more serious case, where they couldn't get the door to open atall, simple solution, and used by many CRJ pilots. Take the door of the hinges, it's what the door is designed to do in an emergency, so not a problem and they could just slip it back on.

So what's all this I hear about inflight security then? I thought the cockpit door was supposed to be terrorist-proof.

The last time I flew it was on an ERJ.  There aint no cockpit door on an ERJ

I guess the hinges are on the inside Doug?  ???

Take the door of the hinges, it's what the door is designed to do in an emergency, so not a problem and they could just slip it back on.

So in an emergency the door comes off the hinges by itself so it could become a projectile inside the cabin?

So what's all this I hear about inflight security then? I thought the cockpit door was supposed to be terrorist-proof.

It is.  It's also crew-proof

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