Woman tried to open door for smoke on plane (midflight)

Oriel

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4456076.stm

TerrorFirmer

Good god......

xzanti

Why is Father Ted springing to mind????

Angels

ya right no recollection, stupid woman, i wouldn't like to have been on that flight!!!

Karl Hungus

Proof that cigarettes should be banned outright!

hoody

how stoooopid can you be?

Karoma

Karl Hungus wrote:

Proof that cigarettes should be banned outright!

Or smoking bans and good manners.


Pfft. It's unlikely that she would have been able to open it anyhow.

The Bollox

Karl Hungus wrote:

Proof that cigarettes should be banned outright!

more like proof that cigarettes can kill

ferdi

Karl Hungus wrote:

Proof that cigarettes should be banned outright!

no, proof that french people should be banned outright!

ambro25

ferdi wrote:

no, proof that french people should be banned outright!

Surprised Sand didn't beat you to that one...

Mr. CooL ICE

To hell with all this. Ban planes!

The Bollox

haha Ferdi has found the first practical use of the Pacman emoticon

seamus

Basic Physics should be compulsory for Leaving Cert. Anyone who fails should be barred from life.

eirebhoy

hoody wrote:

how stoooopid can you be?

Wasn't she sleep walking?

Inisin

seamus wrote:

Basic Physics should be compulsory for Leaving Cert. Anyone who fails should be barred from life.

Basic common sense would be better.

From the article - "had drunk alcohol and taken sleeping tablets ahead of the flight"

Infini

WTF?! How can she be such a stupid RETARD?!

ferdi

we go a bit pissed before our long haul flight this summer and on the way back we popped a few valium and we didnt try open any doors.

J.R.HARTLEY

nah that lady should have been jailed, this culture of "i was drinking and taking tablets, so you see it's not really my fault" is taking over is just another example of peoples devolved responsibility

ionapaul

eirebhoy wrote:

Wasn't she sleep walking?

Well her lawyer *claims* she was sleepwalking...just like Anto's lawyer will claim he was carrying the switchblade as he had hoped to get an apprenticeship as a carpet fitter, and used the blade to practice his carpet fitting skills while simultaneously helping his heavily pregnant 15-year old girlfriend across the road and being an important member of the St. Skangers GAA senior football team!

DonkeyStyle \o/

Ok explosive decompression aside, what did she think; she was going to just stick her head out the door and enjoy the view from 50,000 feet while she has a nice relaxing smoke?
You'd never get the thing lit either.
Would have made a good candidate for the darwin awards

Fey!

She does qualify for a Darwin mention, though!

Isn't alcohol blamed for so many criminal ongoings? Every week the local paper does the court reports, and every week the defendants solicitors use the line "my client had a drink/drug problem which caused him/her to perform this crime. He/she promises they'll be good from now on".
Can't we get the jail time for people who use this excuse doubled???

Sorry 'bout the rant!

Siogfinsceal

scary.....

honru

She may have only wanted to go sky-diving.

Like, that's possible.

monkeyfudge

They should just allow smoking on planes again... it was much healthier for everyone.

besty

In the style of Napoleon Dynamite;

"IDIOT"

Cabaal

Drink should be banned in aiports and on planes,
thing is if she had managed to do it everybody could have died and we may not know what caused it

monkeyfudge

Cabaal wrote:

Drink should be banned in aiports and on planes,

Hey! Hey... lets not say things we might regret... getting hammered on an airplane is all I can do to keep myself from dying of boredom....

Setun

Guys leave her alone, she was obviously dying for a smoke.

<sorry, i'll go now>

Terry

Karl Hungus wrote:

Proof that cigarettes should be banned outright!

i couldn't agree more.
maybe i would be able to quit then.

Idbatterim

if i saw that dangerous maniac attempting that on a plane, i wouldnt wait for an air hotess etc. i would rip her f&*^%ng arms and legs off and throw her into the overhead compartments! free of charge may i add!

Somnus

Karoma wrote:

Pfft. It's unlikely that she would have been able to open it anyhow.

I wouldnt be so sure.I mean those doors are made to open easily in case of an emergency

Victor

Fey! wrote:

Isn't alcohol blamed for so many criminal ongoings? Every week the local paper does the court reports, and every week the defendants solicitors use the line "my client had a drink/drug problem which caused him/her to perform this crime. He/she promises they'll be good from now on".
Can't we get the jail time for people who use this excuse doubled???

Actually drink / drugs is little defence in a court (medication is). It may be occassional used as an explanation for unusual behavior not consistant with the defendents track record and that the defendent has had treatment, doesn't drinking anymore, blah, blah, blah....

Franky Boy

The story is a bit dark.
I'd ****ing hate to see that.

Karoma

Dr.Poca wrote:

I wouldnt be so sure.I mean those doors are made to open easily in case of an emergency

I based my assumption on the difficulties encountered when one is drunk/drugged up trying to open an easier target such as a halldoor

Funkstard

Jaysus....surely the doors are designed so any joe soap isn't able to waltz up and open the door though?

It reminds me of the time my granny asked a flight attendant to open a window on the plane as it was getting stuffy. Bless.

jonny68

:eek: :eek:

lazylad

She should be banned from flying or they should ban drink on planes if that is going to happen

seamus

Funkstard wrote:

Jaysus....surely the doors are designed so any joe soap isn't able to waltz up and open the door though?

Not really. Like any emergency exit, it must be openable in the event of an emergency.

How fitting that she happened to be French.

monkeyfudge

Halle CoolS Femur wrote:

How fitting that she happened to be French.

Why?

Karoma

seamus wrote:

Not really. Like any emergency exit, it must be openable in the event of an emergency.

Maybe so, but as long as the cabin is pressurised - it's extremely unlikely that she could do it..

danniemcq

wonder will they put warning on the back of packs now?

Because they're known for sneaking fags everywhere. I worked in a hotel in France with a non smoking restaurant, there were signs everywhere in French only saying DEFENSE DE FUMER, every single tourist from around the world understood not to smoke but 1 in 4 French guests would light up a fag. We even caught someone trying to hide behind a plant.

drdre

this is very very scary.:o

alleepally

Had to laugh at the photo to go along with the story... The contented smoker lighting up! ah yes, pure bliss :-)

seamus

monkeyfudge wrote:

Why?

The French are particularly militant and rebellious smokers. Did you see Gerard Depardieu on Jonathon Ross?

Pigman II

Judgements aside, is it actually possible for someone to just 'get up and open the door' in midflight? It's an emergency exit fair enough, but I would have thought there'd be at least all sorts of electric and mechanical locking mechanisms in place tied into the altitude/air pressure gauges that would make opening a plane at 30000ft impossible? Emergency or not trying to exit a plane at that height isn't going to do you much good?

Dave!

Good grief!

Stephen

I think you have to pull some kind of cord attached to a ring or something out of the door first. inflatable slide fun.

D

For emerceny exits opening them is just a case of pulling a lever and pulling the door in, for the main doors, its a case of flicking out a handle turning it and opening the door. But in midflight, no, the doors will not open. That goes for both emergency exits and the main exits. They cannot open because of the outward-acting forces of the pressurized fuselage. The doors always open inward (usually inward, then outward or upward, but always inward first), and a person would not be capable of overcoming this force. So, in other words, the doors can't be opened until the aircraft is depressurized. You'll notice that on the sill of the main doors it often says DO NOT SIT. The reason they don't want you sitting there is to avoid messing with the inflatable escape slide that is contained inside the lower door structure.

seamus

D wrote:

For emerceny exits opening them is just a case of pulling a lever and pulling the door in

I knew there was a reason why the doors couldn't be opened when cabin was pressurised, I forgot they open in, not out.