Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf]

Re:Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf] by WatchDog on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @05:44PM (#39281894)

> The flight crew reported that the cockpit door had opened during the depressurization event. In a revision to the Flight Crew Operations Manual, issued on January 15, 2024, Boeing confirmed that the door functioned as designed.

Interesting for terrorists. Cause a rapid decompression, and get easy access to the cockpit.

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Re:Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf] by bradfa on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @07:50PM (#39283076)

Causing rapid decompression is quite hard. Opening a normal door is very difficult during flight except at very low altitudes.

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Re:Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf] by ledauphin on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @07:25PM (#39282908)

yeah, this is a significant hole in the locked cockpit door plan.

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Re:Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf] by mlindner on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @11:23PM (#39284472)

If they cause a rapid decompression they incapacitate themselves and won't be able to use the cockpit.

Also how do you cause a rapid decompression without a gun of some kind?

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Re:Alaska Airlines flight 1282 NTSB preliminary report [pdf] by mihaaly on Wednesday February 07, 2024 @04:23AM (#39286367)

They may go then and blow the whole thing up good insted of such half measures. Sufficiently rapid decompressions may not that reliable and predictable to carry out so I can control the plane afterward easy kind of feats.

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