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To: DeaconBenjamin

So, no one could go outside and push it shut?


3 posted on 12/22/2007 4:24:11 PM PST by Larry Lucido (Hunter 2008)
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To: Larry Lucido
> So, no one could go outside and push it shut?

Ha ha. Actually, of course, the doors open INWARD by design, so that the higher internal pressure of the cabin tends to keep the door shut. It must have gotten wedged or caught on something during closing.

The popular misconception of a door "suddenly opening at high altitude" is simply wrong. The door would have to fail utterly, not just "open", against internal pressure.

7 posted on 12/22/2007 4:29:37 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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