What would happen if you opened the emergency door of a commercial plane during a flight?

Would it actually open? Would the passengers be sucked out of a plane, and could terrorists do it?|||Emergency doors need to be pulled in before they can be opened. In a pressurized aircraft, even the smallest emergency doors are therefore pressed against their frame with a force that exceeds two tons.


Do you know many people able to lift a two ton object clean from the ground?|||The doors of a typical modern airliner cannot be opened in flight, because they are held closed by the air pressure inside the cabin. The doors are designed such that they must move inward before they can move outwards when they are being opened, and they cannot move inwards when the airplane is pressurized because the air pressure presses the doors against their frames with a pressure of several tons.





Thus, there is no danger of anyone opening a door in flight.





If the door could be opened with the airplane pressurized, the person opening it would probably be sucked out of the aircraft, along with anyone or anything nearby that were not fastened down.





There has been at least one case of someone being killed on the ground after opening a door with the airplane still partially pressurized. The victim was a flight attendant who opened the door before all the pressurization in the cabin had been eliminated. The pressure remaining was very slight鈥攍ow enough to allow the flight attendant to pull the door inwards鈥攂ut it was high enough to blow the flight attendant out the door and onto the pavement once the door opened. The flight attendant was killed.





Modern airliners have various mechanisms in place to ensure that all pressurization inside the cabin has been eliminated before the doors are opened. And if the airplane is fully pressurized, the doors can't be opened, anyway.





If the airplane has been completely depressurized in flight, it is theoretically possible to open the doors in some cases. The wind might rip the door away, however.|||Flying at altitudes above 10000 feet means the cabin is pressurized to keep oxygen in the cabin as there is no oxygen above 10000 feet. If the cabin is pressurized, the emergency exit WILL NOT be able to open, unless there is a problem on board that de pressurizes the cabin (oxygen masks drop).





Flying under 10000 feet, could be able to open the exit, although highly unlilkely. Should you open it on the ground, in the event of an emergency, you comitted yourself to assisst the crew in getting passengers off the plane.|||Perhaps had you bothered to read the other thousand or so times this has been asked, you know the answer.





1) It's a plug door and won't open.





2) No terrorists couldn't do it.





3) DB Cooper jumped from an unpressurized airplane, which allowed him to open the tailcone door and enter into the tail cone, which is not pressurized. Then he lowered the aft air stairs and jumped. Since then "DB Cooper" locks have been installed that prevent the airstairs from opening when the aircraft is under way.|||It has NOT BEEN POSSIBLE to open the doors on an airliner for about 50 YEARS now.. Ever since D.B COOPER did his thing.. it's been against the law for any commercial airline to have a door that can be opened in flight. Since you don't know this simeple basic fact, then you probably don't know who D.B. Cooper was.. so you can GOOGLE that and find out.|||How in hell will terrorist (or anyone else) be opening a door of pressurized plane?


Suggest your Taliban buddies to try with a DC-3 or DC-4, it will work -





Too bad for the Italian language -.


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驴O su castellano? -|||That's impossible to do, unless you're using something like a bomb. The pressure in the cabin helps keep the door shut. Even the strongest person in the world couldn't open it unless the plane was depressurized first.|||I would never open one myself, and neither would anyone else. They are designed so that can't be done if the aircraft is pressurized, as the doors have to be pulled in.|||No. The doors are plug type and cannot be opened with aircraft pressurized. The door levers be it boeing or Airbus is equipped with a shear pin so again NO.|||No, yes, no. The emergency doors can not be opened in flight by design.|||Doors in a pressurized passenger aircraft cannot be opened while the aircraft is under pressurization.