Can Aircraft doors be opened in the air?!

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Can a Passenger open an aircraft door inflight? If not, what stops them?
In todays video I will be discussing the doors, slides and emergency exits on the Boeing 737-800. I will be talking about little straps, with huge importance, stupid cargo doors and why the back doors should NEVER be opened if you end up landing the aircraft in water.
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• NORMAL CARGO DOOR OPENING
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Duke Tatekawa (Aircraft getting serviced)
• Airport ground work

[@jamesfunk7614]

In the 1990s, we were aboard a DC10 when a passenger tried to open a door in flight. He was restrained by passengers. The pilots landed at the closest airport to have him arrested.

[@Repented008]

Heh, I remember accidentally almost activating that slide on an NG years ago when I was a junior security agent, trying to inspect the aft galley waste bin. The FA caught my hand at literally the last second, breathing a sigh of relief with her hand over her chest. I've never been so embarrassed in my life😂😂😂. There were PAX on board, but the flight being in-transit, they were fueling. Ahhh, you bring back memories with that strap, Peter.👍

[@robertdennis3892]

A man managed to open what appeared to be one of the forward doors on a jetliner in South Korea. It was 850 ft above the ground, I think, on landing approach. A plug door might not prevent this , as internal pressure becomes greater than the outside once the aircraft exceeds about 8000ft altitude. But the airstream, somehow didn't keep him from pushing the door completely open.

[@kirk1131]

I thought, the door was at the rear. Nitrogen opens the door.

[@sorestedhebytheTumtumtree]

He made a video about it.

[@ianstobie]

Go to 4:56 for how the passenger entry/exit doors work, now very topical following the Asiana incident when a passenger managed to open one in flight. Looking forward to Mentour covering it, but the aircraft seems to have been landing. The intro is worth watching too, as it covers service doors and how many doors are required to get people out fast in an emergency evacuation.

[@voxer99]

This Mentour is a very clever chap. He knows how to get the av enthusiasts AND the pet-lovers.

[@ethelcross3599]

He is a very handsome and sexy Pilot..

[@TheKaidynB]

Hate to break your heart but he’s married

[@livenfree]

Yes, his puppy is cute!

[@PRCOM]

The inward cargo doors were put in place because when the first series of 737 went into testing the outward cargo doors kept failing the Pressure tests and blown out, so they redesigned the cargo doors. Ironically the same thing happened to the DC10 during same test but they just ignored it and it cost a lot of innocent lives.

[@frankbutaric3565]

The 707 has doors that are smaller that the hole they plug but open outward

[@takingafatdump]

that must have been back when boeing valued designing superior aircraft and would not gloss over vital system errors that cost hundreds of lives *cough 737 max

[@JoshuaPlays99]

@@takingafatdump You would think adding an auto trimming function would be a critical flight control system to inform pilots and airlines about, but nooo

[@colingrant321]

Your dogs are so happy. As an animal lover, makes me smile.

[@ministerdjspliff]

I'm a also a vegan and animal lover. All the best!

[@grzib]

ministerdjspliff God bless You

[@4stringmanagmaildcom]

One advantage of the inward opening cargo doors is ground equipment won't run into them. Also, I was a participant in the emergency evacuation certification test for the 767. It was crazy. Also Boeing testing on the 747 in the 60's when I was a teen. There was big concern about passengers going down the big slides from the upper deck. My dad worked for Boeing.

[@adamw.8579]

If You mean DC-10 cargo door... so it was slight different construction, internal pressure was caught by locking system. Nowadays doors are self-locked by air pressure - are open to inside, after pressure equalization.

[@ImperrfectStranger]

Also, inwardly opening cargo doors are small enough to be manipulated manually (with a little spring-loading). It's much easier to open an inwardly opening door by pushing from a set of steps. Outwardly opening doors of the same size would be a pain to manipulate and have nothing to keep it in the open position.

[@ainzooalgown7589]

there a 747 United Airlines Flight 811 where the outward opening door blew out due to faulty locks and people died. hence i prefer inward doors since the pressurization keeps it closed rather than just locks

[@jur4x]

I remember one of the Mayday episodes. There was a plane that caught fire during take-off. They did abort take-off and managed to stop. One of questions raised during investigation was: why there were so many casualties despite aircraft being certified to evacuate with only half exits available (which was the case in this accident)? What they discovered was "emergency evacuation" during certification was too organised compared to real emergency. So they tested it again but in order to introduce some chaos they said something like "first five to get of will get £20" (not sure about exact amounts though) and people did behave like in real fire.

[@EinkOLED]

If you are referring to the british airtours flight 28M, the plane was a 737-200 classic where the overwing exits needed to be physically picked up and thrown out onto the wing. On that flight several events happened which prevented the safe evacuation of passengers, the forward right exit was jammed and passengers weren't briefed (it wasn't made a requirement then) on how to use the overwing exits and therefore struggled to open it. When they did managed to released the hatch on one side, it dropped onto a passenger trapping her and the narrow exit slowed the evacuation process. Which is why today the emergency overwing exits have a wider seat pitch with a easier safe hatch opening and a briefing given to able bodied passengers. The smoke also made evacuation more difficult which is why aircraft manufacturers now use floor lighting which work even when power is lost and will guide passengers who are crawling under smoke to find their way to the nearest exit.

[@johnstedman4075]

The AAIB report on that Manchester accident involving a British Airtours 737 makes sad reading. A significant factor in the high casualty rate was that the fire on the port engine deveoped very quickly and when the Captain rejected the takeoff and pulled off onto a taxiway there was a strong wind that fanned the flames onto the fuselage. Not stated, but a possible contributor to the fatalities, was that the aircraft was filled with tourists who were going on a sun and sand holiday, so their reactions may have been less assertive than those on a more business orientated passenger list.

[@christianbarnay2499]

It has always amazed me that all the certification process involves test pilots pushing the aircraft to extreme conditions that far exceed all conditions that it should encounter in normal operation during its entire life, and yet evacuation procedures are tested in perfectly ideal conditions. They install the plane in a wide well lit hangar and use selected volunteers who are heavily briefed on how important it is that they evacuate fast but in order. Also they only use people in good shape. No wheelchair, no elderly with a walking stick, nobody acting as an injured passenger that needs to be carried to the exit by other passengers or cabin crew. No night conditions, no obstacles nearby like trees or broken parts.

[@roichir7699]

@@christianbarnay2499 Well they don't test like this. A former coworker was at the test for the A380 as he worked for Airbus at this time. And of course there are other sources where I have my information from, like a university degree in aviation. The Aircraft will sit in a hangar in a TTOL configuration, just like after landing, there is no really useful light in the hangar (maybe some emergency exit lights in the distance), in the plane there is only emergency lighting and the money for the first few guys is real, but it is more like a few hundred bucks. The simulation passengers have to be selected based on age and height/weight and randomly scattered inside the plane to represent the best possible approximation of a usual loading. Elderly people, kids and disabled cannot be part of the test as it is too dangerous. So this deviation is accepted. Usually there are some broken legs and other injuries during such a test. Even with not so vulnerable people.

[@TMccrury]

Great video. Many moons ago, my Brother in law was in the USAF and stationed at a Bomber wing station where they had B52's. Someone managed to install the Weight on Wheels sensor upside down on one. The result was, on take off, the plane suddenly thought it was on the ground and done what planes are supposed to do when they land and well, the result was it crashed. He was the base ops manager at the time and witnessed the crash. One of the engineers told him what had happened.

[@brown-eyedman4040]

I've been in C110s and C130s when the rear ramp open. It's actually cool. And even cooler when a tank or truck rolls out and parachute to the ground!

[@k-isfor-kristina]

I like that your dog evacuated the couch as you were talking about evacuating the plane

[@SodaWithoutSparkles]

There was a incident happened just a few days ago in Korea where a passenger opened the emergency exit of an A321. Could you try to cover it?

[@Bill_Woo]

The evacuation video at 4:02 is striking in that it shows people not getting out of the way at the bottom of the slide. That's tragically reflective of typical human behavioir. Once they take care of themself, most don't have a glimmer of perception of the others that need their cooperation (e.g. clearing the slide area). I see this all the time with drivers. For example, are you someone who sees the car behind you signaling a turn, thus you move so they can make a "right turn on red" or move 6 inches to permit them to enter the start of a turn-only lane? If so, you are rare. Drivers could care less about other cars. Just like the way people hold up everyone else while they take 20 to 30 seconds (EACH) to get their overhead luggage while deplaning. Thank GOD that not everyone is like that. I grab my ----- and move along, and a good number of decent fellow passengers are exactly that way. But in an emergency, where we need to evacuate - I'm not positive that my fellow man is as altruistic as I strive to be.

[@sharoncassell9358]

Thats called consideration.

[@purplealice]

The famous hijacking case of D. B. Cooper involved him leaving the plane in mid-air, with a parachute. However, the particular plane he was on had a staircase build into the aft end of the fuselage, and that could be opened in flight. That's how he jumped out of the plane.

[@TheKaidynB]

DB Cooper is a legend where I live.

[@catmeows2031plays]

Lets just say he gone skydiving

[@edheather4056]

It was a Boeing 727.After the Cooper incident they locked the aft stairs.

[@mikelynn6582]

The dog is so disciplined, letting Mentour do the video! Good explanation about the doors.

[@mikezerker6925]

Very interesting video! I was wondering about a lot of these procedures that the cabin crew do during take off and landing. Thanks for the great explanation Captain!!

[@blatherskite9601]

The older 737s had plug doors over the wings, too. But they were heavy to manhandle, as there was no hinge, they just fell in on you when you pulled the handle.

[@bikkies]

I always love these videos. The next person watching this material just might find themselves in an evacuation or other emergency scenario. Therefore by producing this series of videos, you just might have saved some lives.

[@jamesstreet856]

I remember once a plane made a water landing and the passengers had inflatable life vests but some of them panicked and inflated the life vests too early and when the plane filled up with water, they were trapped in the top of the plane because they couldn't dive under water because the life vests were inflated and alot of them drowned. There is also a way to use your jeans and your shirt as a flotation device as well. You learn alot of valuable information in the US Navy. 😀

[@TheKaidynB]

Ethiopian 961. My mom was in the navy as well.

[@iLupi]

Definitely checking out the “boarding from the left” video, after being able to experience an entry from the right side, it’s very fun to get to enter from a different perspective!

[@SpamMouse]

It's nice to board then turn left.

[@tazzer9]

@@SpamMouse normally the boarding and then turning left is reserved for those in business or first on a widebody.

[@SpamMouse]

@@tazzer9 Why do you think I made that comment then?

[@RJ-rt1jp]

I just spent the entire day watching your videos yesterday!

[@MentourPilot]

I hope it was a day well spent!

[@butthead6051]

@@MentourPilot Hello Mr.Pilot Duuuuude, What about when planes are being tested and certified like the A380. I saw the crew with parachutes and special outfits. How do they jump out if the plane comes to grief?

[@roichir7699]

@@butthead6051 For these tests there are special evacuation tunnels installed in the aircraft. Something you will not finde on a normally operated plane.

[@plzbgaming]

Oh please. I’ve spent an entire weekend watching his videos!

[@jimgiordano8218]

Now I know what the "Arm and Cross Check" means. 23 years of flying all over the world and today I learned something. Thanks

[@Old_B52H_Gunner]

Even though I know most of what you discuss on your videos, your way of teaching is such that I still enjoy all your videos, not just the ones that were new info for me. Keep up the good work.

[@charlieirvin5423]

Hi Mentour Pilot Pete Thank you for Posting this i enjoy all your postings

[@YoyomaG6]

I'll be honest that I never saw any straps on the doors of airlines that I have used, but I will definitely look for them in the future! I love this kind of stuff.

[@TopCop1982]

Another excellent explanation. 👍

[@MadeiraAirport]

Really nice explanation!

[@MentourPilot]

Thank you!

[@MadeiraAirport]

@@MentourPilot You welcome!

[@joelabreu5497]

just made a flight from bordeus to lisbon on an embraer 190, and got asked if i could sit in the emergency doors over the wing, and got training in opening if needed. that was cool. and now you made this video. thx

[@basilschwegmann7395]

A very informative video sir, thank you.

[@andrewyoung3299]

As someone who goes on 737’s as a passenger, this is really interesting Mentour!

[@airfoxtrot2006]

Great video Mentour I enjoyed watching it, have a fantastic weekend my friend.

[@19Maxx68]

I really enjoy your videos. Keep them coming !!!!

[@Greggory1987]

This was a very informative video....great topic!

[@mr_nice.]

FINALLY!!!!!!..........I found out what that "Armed and crosschecked" means....... but of course......you can open a plane door anytime in flight when you're in Hollywodd!

[@1983dmd]

Super interesting. Thank You!

[@vayalobo]

Once again, thanks for sharing another great video...and meanwhile Patxi is thinking "can I open that door while he's recording" ?

[@Ojisan642]

Your doggie is like a parallel show in addition to the aviation information 🐶😂 I always wondered what “cross check and verify straps” (as they say on US carriers) meant. Since it happens at the same time as the flight crew is checking the passenger cabin before takeoff, I always assumed straps was just slang for seat belts. Now I know better!

[@kimberlyperrotis8962]

I just got my stepdad hooked on your channel, too. I though I had watched all the videos, but yay, found some more!

[@samuelvansteen4138]

I was flying from Quito to Amsterdam just before Corona. Sitting next to the emergency exit by the wings (no idea what type of plane it was) but I was not briefed on any procedure. The flight attendant was sitting opposite me and when I checked where my life vest was she just pointed where it was. I am no nervous flyer, just want to be safe. But thank you for telling me about the strap and the yellow ring on the wing. Love your channel!

[@CatzHoek]

I'm not sure if your dog isn't secretly a cat.

[@gmoops8986]

My thought exactly! A cross-dresser?

[@jsmithmultimediatech]

@@gmoops8986 LOL an interesting term to use for it haha, not disputing it though :)

[@justaman5418]

its Dougal from the magic roundabout

[@jeffdrum5541]

The head-butting was the give.

[@mog882]

PC USER EPIC COMMENT/REFERENCE!! Dougal! I love that little bastard! By the way It’s called “magic carousel” but maybe in a different market (from the USA) it has a different name; please check and report back.

[@InopGauge]

I can attest to the fact that is an impossible to open these doors when the aircraft is pressurized. You would break the handle on the door before the door would actually open. If it is something to do with working a commercial airliner, I've done it. We used to to a little hazing with new employees when we were cleaning the cabin of an RON aircraft. On the DC 9, with just the APU running, you could roll back a control wheel on the center column for a cabin outflow valve and get the aircraft to pressurize. New employees would feel their ears popping and we would pretend like we didn't feel anything. After the aircraft had pressurized to a certain level, we would unlocked the cabin air outflow valve wheel and it would depressurize really quickly and cause your ears to pop even more. New employees had no idea what was going on. LOL.

[@jisukim381]

Greatly enjoyed every single of your videos!

[@janedoe9940]

Wow, after all this time, I finally understood why the lights need to be dimmed during landing. Thank you, Peter!

[@godisholy7067]

Love this channel. Just a passenger who’s jitters are smoothed learning more here. Ps everyone loves the little dogs.

[@WeinerBlut]

Thank you for an informative and fun video as always! I wonder if you could make a video about the cargo hold and it's features? Sincerely - a fellow swede ;)

[@shubhambhutani1]

Very informative!

[@kilianortmann9979]

If the door has an area of about 2 square meters that would be roughly 10 tons keeping it shut!

[@Ojisan642]

So even in a partial depressurization scenario, it still would be pretty difficult to open. That makes me feel a lot more confident in the security of those doors!

[@deadfreightwest5956]

At work I've used vacuum machining fixtures. There's tons of clamping force on what appears to be an aluminum plate with a thin gasket (usually o-ring material or similar). Just using the atmosphere as a clamp.

[@colingrant321]

Naughty child. Go to your room and come back when you are ready to learn what you did wrong...Child or adult can't open door because evaporative cooling system is on full chooch, and several hundred kg due to differential pressure holding door shut.

[@dannydaw59]

Dwayne "the rock" Johnson ain't pulling that sucker open.

[@stvrob6320]

I get 7.5 tons, assuming 5psi differential.

[@joshuahalla.k.a.controlla6333]

Great video.☺️

[@bishalchoudhury8689]

Once again.... An informative video... Love from India

[@MentourPilot]

Thank you! Glad you liked it!

[@danco1968]

I remember that the Boeing 727 (I believe) had a built-in staircase below its tail. It lowered to the ground to provide entry/exit.

[@carschmn]

Those cabin door certification tests look like so much fun

[@auraaura2417]

I come here after the Asiana incident today 26 May 2023. It's reported the passenger opened it at about 230 meters 10 mins before landing. Your explanation of the door mechanics here helps me to better understand it.

[@ianstobie]

Me too! Mainstream media playing it for maximum alarm, so no informed coverage yet. As you mention, low altitude and imminent landing appears to be why it was possible.

[@auraaura2417]

@@ianstobie If the release is true that the passenger did open the door without mechanical failure, I reckon this reveals a critical gap in safety precautions and public communication. Almost all sources said this was impossible without mentioning take off and landing.

[@ianstobie]

@@auraaura2417 Yes, I agree. That's why we need detailed information. It could be that the door locks come off too soon for commercial reasons, to give a faster turnaround. Or it could be that adding extra strong safeguards to keep doors shut in landings would add a different hazard, slowing evacuation in the event of a landing crash. It's certainly worth a detailed investigation even if no one was hurt in this incident.

[@tedjensen8841]

Good information. Thank you.

[@petervanniekerk896]

I love your dogs, they are loved and very well taken care of. You love them very much is obvious.

[@brucekendall52]

Good info,thks.

[@youngcaptainkeos2133]

thx dude, i used this to prove a point to my friends

[@crystalsoulslayer]

I think my favorite thing about aviation, which I've learned from this channel, is that they seem to have accumulated more answers to panicked questions about "WHAT IF X????" than any other field I've ever heard of. What if all the engines stop working? "That's incredibly unlikely. But we do practice it every six months or so." What if it's foggy and there's a cliff in front of you and you can't see it? "We have multiple proximity warning systems for that." What if you have to get off the plane before there's time to bring in those stair truck things? "Three words: Explosively inflating slides." Okay, well, what if you hit birds? "Oh, that happens all the time. We test the important parts by _firing a chicken out of a cannon."_

[@sam28600]

your dog is a charmer :)

[@sylviasanchez7500]

Tom Cruise did 8 takes of that 'scene' hanging from off the side of the A-400 for M.I. 5. The A-400 is currently flanked by 4 TP400 D6 engines, the most powerful turbo prop engine of its kind.

[@JudgeSweden]

Jag vet inte om du haft det så förut men bra att du har en grön kudde på höger sida och en röd på vänster sida. 👍🏻😃

[@Elanthiel]

You mention that when the gear detects no weight, the locks on the overwing exits are engaged. But what if the gear fails to deploy and you have to make a belly landing, the gear would then not "realise" that the plane is on the ground, and might not disengage the lock? And I'd assume that this would be a situation where an evacuation is more likely than usual. Or would there then be a different combination of factors that would make the internal computer decide to unlock those exits?

[@Not.Your.Business]

the gear sensor is not the only one used in the decision to toggle the locks. thrust lever position, engine rpm, pitot tubes, other doors sensors are all part of the system that decides if/when the emergency doors locks should engage/disengage.

[@Elanthiel]

@@Not.Your.Business that makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.

[@Maniac3020]

I already knew the answer before I started watching: Air pressure. They are designed to open inwards. But I like this stuff so much I watched anyway.

[@byteme9718]

Cargo doors? Any idea what has happened when one of these open diring flight?

[@paultrewin5871]

A few people lose their suitcases.

[@adamw.8579]

@@byteme9718 Old times at dc-10, when cargo doors are keept by hydraulic locks, Todays doors are opened inwards, so no way to open it on flight level. Only on ground on after depressurize cabin,

[@byteme9718]

@@paultrewin5871 Yes but unfortunately the cabin floor can collapse severing essential control systems. A cabin door has massive forces acting on it due to pressure diffrences but is far smaller than the entire cabin floor. This type of event has caused fatal crashes and there are systems they reduce or remove this ever happening again but it is still never about losing suitcases.

[@byteme9718]

@@adamw.8579 You should check out aircraft in service.

[@drln1ghthaunter]

@2:12 about cargo doors opening inwards it is just an extra level of safety at the expense of potential proft from using that space, It made me immediately think about UA Flight 811 where the cargo doors locking mechanism failed and the door opens outwards bursting open and depressurising the aircraft. As far as I was aware if it opens inwards the pressure would have forced the door to stay closed or at least prevent the door being torn from the aircraft to potentialy strike the aircraft as it is forced out.

[@lukegriffiths6569]

However wide body aircraft cargo doors open out to save space, like in the example you refer to. All aircraft doors are "plug" type fit. Literally like a bathroom plug. Even the ones that open out. For boeing in particular the passenger doors open out but the top and bottom collapse in order to fit through the door, then realign on closing.

[@blatherskite9601]

Outwards opening cargo doors have massive locking systems, and these are heavy and complex. Failure is no fun, either - see the THY DC-10 crash outside Paris, 1974. Thus, the airframe is heavier than inward-opening cargo doors due to the mechanisms, but inward doors are not suited to container loading. So, when containers are uded, outward opening doors.

[@christianbarnay2499]

@@blatherskite9601 The DC-10 issue happened because in a DC-10 the passenger cabin and cargo bay are a unique pressurized volume. In modern plane designs there is a seal separating the non-pressurized cargo bay from the pressurized passenger cabin. This has 2 advantages: 1. in case of a cargo door opening, the passenger won't suffer depressurization and the plane will stay operable, 2. in case of something blowing up in the cargo bay, low pressure in that area means the shock wave from the explosion is less violent and less likely to damage the aircraft.

[@mrkkg27]

@@christianbarnay2499 Are you sure about that? I have always been told that the a/c is designed so that if there is a rapid decompression the entire plane will decompress, otherwise parts of the plane would crumple up like a coke can. I worked on the Death Cruiser DC-10-10 and -30 and the L1011. I know for sure the L1011 is designed to decompress cargo and cabin equally. There are pressure panels in the lower level that are built into the walls separating the cargo holds and lower galley. I was in the lower galley SLC-OAK when the fwd cargo door seal blew out. In an instant those pressure panels dissappeard with a loud bang, the temp instantly was freezing, it got foggy and really windy, I think the seat cover on my jumpseat needed to be changed. Maybe you're thinking about the temp. Most of the time cargo holds are not heated unless a pet is transported, which I would NEVER reccommend unless you can take them in the cabin with you, otherwise drive, or take the train.

[@SF-li9kh]

Wow, first time I'm so early. Maybe it's because it's 2 AM here and I'm watching an aviation channel. I love how your videos are more frequent now

[@Tom-dt4ic]

For this episode, Mentour Pilot is very well lit.

[@shauryambasu4211]

liked the video before even watching it.......loved the content

[@Nicholas-sp9ce]

Could you talk about the purpose of the yaw damper

[@dmacdonell]

Love the interruptions

[@brunogasperin]

Here goes a funny story. My grandfather was a flight attendant. Once, in a DC-3, the galley was full of trash and he was freaking out about it. He had a great freaking idea, he opens the door and throws a trash bag out of the plane IN CRUISE LEVEL. Not that cool, but still a funny one. i guess we shall say: good old days, eh?!

[@colingrant321]

DFMEA - Design failure mode and effect analysis. A method used in engineering to reduce risk of something going wrong.

[@ZimmMr]

Yet again perfect timing!

[@MentourPilot]

Glad you thought so! Why is that?

[@ZimmMr]

@@MentourPilot tomorrow morning is my testing pressurisation systems air-conditioning and all general systems. This video answers many of my questions!

[@bazl1721]

Hey Petter, Can you talk a little bit about pilot health and fitness, staying fit, staying healthy and such Id love to see a pilots perspective on that

[@Breznak]

I think he did exactly that earlier this year.

[@bazl1721]

Which video?

[@davejase3399]

Love the channel... I've never gone pro, but have been flying for 25 years, and always wondered; how long after touchdown is your rudder authority enough to keep the aircraft straight in a jet, all things considered (no crazy crosswinds)?

[@TheOmega13a]

If I recall, on South African Airways Flight 295, at least one door was opened while the plane was in flight in an attempt to get rid of the smoke that was filling the plane.

[@radzhurl8711]

Yes that's what I've seen on Nat Geo. The flight was from Taiwan to Mauritius, hope to have some explanation on that from Mentour Pilot. Thanks and cheers.

[@TheKaidynB]

They descended to a low enough altitude that it was possible

[@Askejm]

I would love a video of a guy running over to the door, yanking the lever and then bashing against the door with no success while 2 flight attendants just stand behind him and laugh

[@marksprague3897]

How does the weight on wheel switch controlling the over-wing exits work in the event of a water landing?

[@psirvent8]

Thrust levers will not be in "flight position" anymore

[@springbok4015]

psirvent8 why not? What if a correction is made at the last second and the pilots forget to move the lever back?

[@medleyshift1325]

@@springbok4015 Then the engine is on, and you should not be near the wings.....

[@barryfowler954]

psirvent8 is exactly correct, thrust levers pulled back, also many aircraft (not all) have an airspeed override. That's to say the doors can be opened if all pitot tubes are showing zero airspeed. It's the same mechanism that prevents the undercarriage from being retracted while stationary on the ground.

[@roichir7699]

And of course most aircrafts have a ditching switch, which shuts down some systems and gives a lot more information to others.

[@rvasic]

Brilliant, passengers should know this, and they will be more calm and prepared for emergency. Thanks!

[@aguila21]

The dog is the best!

[@tcsdoc]

14:25 Dog provides example of evacuation from the couch.

[@KlaxontheImpailr]

One infamous case was Springbok 295, there was a fire onboard and they opened the door to vent the smoke.

[@beegood9395]

The dog took over the show! Great video!

[@MrHav1k]

The more you know, the safer you feel!

[@Pensivata]

I love the funky guitar at the beginning... it sets me up in the right spirits to imbide the entire avionic vibrations of Mentour's diatribe.. erm,... if I can put it like that...

[@tazzer9]

DB Cooper has entered the chat

[@abeh9937]

Buddy answered this question yesterday 😬

[@MrKatipong]

For A320, the slide wont inflate even when the door is armed when opening from the outside. However there’s an indicator on the door that light up when the cabin is still pressurized, so the person from the outside wont open the door and harm himself.

[@jchrg2336]

In die hip motion capture zit er een of ander techniek of mechaniek die ik zelf nog niet helder kan zien maar die energie drijft me naar dat animatie filmpje!

[@yoidoretennshi777]

When the cruising altitude is very low, it seems to be possible to open the exit doors because the pressure difference between cabin and outside is not so big. Besides I remember that in the past there were at least two cases of hijacking in which a hijacker escaped from one of the exit doors with a parachute and money ( both of them seem to have died due to unfavorable weather conditions or parachute defect).

[@extrastuff9463]

Very clear video but after watching it I've got two questions: 1. That green pillow on the left of the screen has straps? Is it actually a bag? 2. How large was the mess that right candle in the background presumably left on the table? It's so far sideways that it must've spilled. Oh and I also want to mess up that rubiks cube in the background, just because it appears to be in solved state.

[@tetsi0815]

Could you please also link to videos you mention - like the "why only board from left side" - directly in the comments so we don't have to search for them on your channel? :-)

[@richmorris2870]

I have always wondered what the strap was for…. And now I know 👍🏻

[@ZimmMr]

Could you please share a link to the other videos you mention during this video? Thx.

[@rd12th]

Hi Peter, Can you make a video about compressor stall of a jet engine? It happened recently to flight PR113.

[@antimonni]

Haha, Patxi used both overwing exits and even went down without the slides during this video 😜

[@rudolfabelin383]

Hmmmmm! I think the opening video picture is inspired of 74 gear. Cool 😎

[@nasito398]

Your Dog fantastic as well as your video!

[@sbalogh53]

A side benefit of dimming the lights at takeoff and landing is the much better view of the city lights below.

[@roppeke]

great video ! please tell me (us) more how wheelchair user can use the toilets? As for myself, I am a WCHC and need assistance for all transfers. So I wonder if I can acces the small toilets and in what way? And in can of a emergency exit, what do we need to do? Wait until everyone is out? Keep on posting those great tutorials !

[@tonydighera7958]

Airbus 321… Asiana 241 Jeju to Daegu. “Determined Person makes Door go Boom!”😅