“The company just hadn’t said so in the manual.”
Sounds like the tech writer for the manual graduated from the Lloyd Austin Surgical School.
Nikky Boeing said no comment.
Boeing has too many friends in high places in South Carolina to fail.
Nothing to see here.
Move along.
“Some said it appears to expose a security flaw that now must be addressed.”
Yeah…because that is when the terror squad is ready to strike. That’s their go signal. The national security State never rests.
Morons
There was a saying back in the day, “If it don’t say Boeing then I ain’t going.” Now I think not so much.
Someone cut corners. If the cabin decompresses, parts of the the door panel may give away to allow for pressure equalization but enough metal should remain to keep attackers out of the cockpit.
That depends. Was the door designed to handle catastrophic rapid depressurization?
If the answer is “no”, then the door is not to blame.
CC
14.7 psi x 72 inches tall x x 24 inches wide = 25,400 pounds of pressure. Adjust for different door sizes and residual air pressure in the cabin and you still get tons of pressure on that door. Either it has to be vented or built like the aircraft entry door to fix it.
Well, that’s nice to let our enemies know about aircraft vulnerabilities.
Dumba$$es.
Ok...
So now everyone knows how to bypass cockpit security doors. Great.
Blast from the past(Actually happened more than once before they fixed the problem):
On June 12, 1972, the left rear cargo door of the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 operating the flight blew open and broke off en route between Detroit and Buffalo above Windsor, Ontario; the accident is thus sometimes referred to as the Windsor incident, although according to the NTSB it is an accident, not an incident.
U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators found the cargo door design to be dangerously flawed, as the door could be closed without the locking mechanism fully engaged, and this condition was not apparent from visual inspection of the door nor from the cargo-door indicator in the cockpit.
As a computer programmer, all bugs are really undocumented features.
Was it wise to broadcast this to the entire Muslim world?
The only reason why the cockpit doors are designed to open on rapid depressurization is because the FAA told them to.