Emergency door blows out at cruising level

Happyman42

Marion Finucane was talking on the radio this morning about somebody telling their story about the above , anyone know what incident she was referring to?

Irish Steve

Not sure, as I didn't hear the RTE program, but I suspect that it's the less than worrying event referred to here on the Aviation Herald, which appears to have been a non event in all respects, and has not even been raised as an incident on the home country regulatory web site, which suggests very strongly that it's been significantly "over reported" by the media.

Tenger

Irish Steve wrote: »

.........appears to have been a non event in all respects, and has not even been raised as an incident on the home country regulatory web site, which suggests very strongly that it's been significantly "over reported" by the media.

So the Daily Mail ran a story about a pax claiming that a door is open..........

considering that an open door would be very quickly spotted in the cockpit display I doubt it was actually open. No captain would want his crew going anywhere near a door that was open while "infligit." I would guess that the PPL pax thought he saw gap, no idea where the bomb-like sound came from....imagination perhaps?

Why was the A380 only at FL270 2 hours after take-off? FL370 perhaps?


From the sounds of it I would suspect that perhaps the door seal was not operating correctly (loud noises, cold air)

kona

As said it was probably a seal, people should stfu about things they have no idea about. Hate this over dramatic crap. Does the a380 use plug doors? The rest of the airbus fleet don't afaik.

Happyman42

Yep that was the one, she was talking about them stuffing the gap with blankets.

Best username ever

Tenger wrote: »

From the sounds of it I would suspect that perhaps the door seal was not operating correctly (loud noises, cold air)

I have been on a plane when this happened, a 732. There was a hissing noise from the bottom of the cabin door. The flight attendant calmly walked over and put what I think was a wet towel at the bottom of the door, problem solved.

It scared the shíte out of me though.

Tenger

Best username ever wrote: »

I have been on a plane when this happened..........The flight attendant calmly walked over and put what I think was a wet towel at the bottom of the door, problem solved.

It scared the shíte out of me though.

Sounds familiar to me............its all about things being 'within limits' most cabin crew will be used to dodgy seals......it can cause issues but again crew are alert to the symptoms of decompressions.

Zonda999

Typical over dramatization from the daily mail. "blows open mid flight", "terror at 27,000ft" FFS..

http://avherald.com/h?article=45dcf5b6&opt=0

They mention it in the AVHerald but its pretty clear the whoever wrote about it on that site is pretty skeptical about the whole thing.. I

Irish Steve

Zonda999 wrote: »

Typical over dramatization from the daily mail. "blows open mid flight", "terror at 27,000ft" FFS..

http://avherald.com/h?article=45dcf5b6&opt=0

They mention it in the AVHerald but its pretty clear the whoever wrote about it on that site is pretty skeptical about the whole thing.. I

As posted in post #2:D

shedweller

Best username ever wrote: »

I have been on a plane when this happened, a 732. There was a hissing noise from the bottom of the cabin door. The flight attendant calmly walked over and put what I think was a wet towel at the bottom of the door, problem solved.

It scared the shíte out of me though.

Being from a mechanical background, this would not worry me in the least. Once pressure is maintained there shouldn't be a problem. Shouldn't.

Zonda999

Irish Steve wrote: »

As posted in post #2:D

Oops, my bad! Seriously though, pretty much anything you read about on any topic in the Daily Mail is going be totally sensationalized. I don;t think the AVHerald should have put anything up, seeing as its such a non-story..

Irish Steve

Herald put it up to try and stop the media sensationalism, they've made that clear in comments, under normal circumstances they would not have touched it, but as it got such a high profile in some places, it was decided to put the real story up in order to show just how bad some of the sensationalism of the media has become.

Corkbah

kona wrote: »

As said it was probably a seal, people should stfu about things they have no idea about. Hate this over dramatic crap. Does the a380 use plug doors? The rest of the airbus fleet don't afaik.

I'm sorry to have to say this but thats a disrespectful attitude to take - unless someone knows everything about everything they should "stfu" ??

I know this situation was more than likely a small matter blown out of proportion and there was more than likely no need to run to the media on it, but would you take the same attitude to people who have been victim to medical negligence - they often do not know whats happened but know that they are still sick or in some cases people have died during "routine" operations - and they want answers .... so using your own words with a different scenario do you think those people should stfu and leave the medical professionals alone ?

I'm sure the people that didn't know what was happening and in a most likely scenario were probably not told by the airline staff so they wanted answers ... it can be a frightening experience (as another boards user has said) if a seal is not operating correctly....especially for an ordinary person with little or no understanding of their own safety - they feared the worst.

Irish Steve

The scenario here was slightly different, the Mail report was as a result of the information being passed to them by a PPL holder.

I would hope a PPL holder would have had slighlty more knowledge of what was happening, and had the cop on to recognise that if the crew were not saying anything about the issue, it was a non issue. The aircraft departed on time for the return leg, and has been flying to schedule since, if there was an issue, if nothing else, it would have been reported to the relevant authorities, and appeared as a report on their web site, which is not the case.

As I have already said, non event, over sensationalised by one newspaper, who have now quietly let the story drop, and ideally, the mods will lock this thread as well, or change the title to say alleged or similar.

A320

kona wrote: »

As said it was probably a seal, people should stfu about things they have no idea about. Hate this over dramatic crap. Does the a380 use plug doors? The rest of the airbus fleet don't afaik.

They do have plug doors

kona

Corkbah wrote: »

I'm sorry to have to say this but thats a disrespectful attitude to take - unless someone knows everything about everything they should "stfu" ??

I know this situation was more than likely a small matter blown out of proportion and there was more than likely no need to run to the media on it, but would you take the same attitude to people who have been victim to medical negligence - they often do not know whats happened but know that they are still sick or in some cases people have died during "routine" operations - and they want answers .... so using your own words with a different scenario do you think those people should stfu and leave the medical professionals alone ?

I'm sure the people that didn't know what was happening and in a most likely scenario were probably not told by the airline staff so they wanted answers ... it can be a frightening experience (as another boards user has said) if a seal is not operating correctly....especially for an ordinary person with little or no understanding of their own safety - they feared the worst.

Yea they should tbh, they go on radio and news telling people dramatic horse****.