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If the door had been opened by this lunatic and the slide then deployed (flight attendants normally disarm it when you taxi up to the terminal), my main concern
by chiph 9y ago
If the door had been opened by this lunatic and the slide then deployed (flight attendants normally disarm it when you taxi up to the terminal), my main concern is that it'd get torn off and be sucked into an engine. That'd turn a bad situation into a very serious one.
- TheRealDunkirk 9y agoJet engines can "eat" a lot of stuff before failing, and exploding, like in the movies. They're 3,000 degree incinerators with giant 30,000 RPM food processors in front and back. I'd be more worried about the slide wrapping over the wing, and fouling the control surfaces. Surely plane engineers have thought through this scenario though, and have some mitigation strategies in the design?
- greenyoda 9y agoFlight 1549, which famously landed on the Hudson River in 2009, had its engines disabled by ingesting a few geese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Airways_Flight_1549
- TheRealDunkirk 9y agoDefine "few" and I'll define "a lot". ;-)