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The publicly available reports are pretty specific about the flight deck door flying open and blocking the forward lav. I think it’s a bit hasty to brush that off just because it was said by an FA, its certainly not SSI to say that they see the flight deck/forward lav door dance enough during boarding to accurately describe what happened. As far as why the door opened and if it was supposed to, I guess we’ll find out via the NTSB if it’s not SSI or during our CQs etc if it is.
 
MCAS, cockpit door opening upon decompression event.. what else does the max do that boeing hasn't yet disclosed?? /s
 
Roger Roger said:
The publicly available reports are pretty specific about the flight deck door flying open and blocking the forward lav. I think it’s a bit hasty to brush that off just because it was said by an FA, its certainly not SSI to say that they see the flight deck/forward lav door dance enough during boarding to accurately describe what happened. As far as why the door opened and if it was supposed to, I guess we’ll find out via the NTSB if it’s not SSI or during our CQs etc if it is.
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What I do know is “they” have asked employees at said place to STFU about this incident on forums, but some of y’all are full on…
 
What does an A321neo flight deck door do during an explosive decompression in the main cabin?
 
trafficinsight said:
Probably flies off :p
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While laughing with an outrageggggeeeooous accent.

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Inverted said:
And you think those pieces of information are more useful than the cockpit door completely opening under a depress event?
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Not just a depress event but an explosive decompression which is usually more along the lines of Aloha 243 than this.... and by the way the flight deck door on the aloha flight departed along with the cabin roof, too.

I'm just saying there are a *lot* of things that may be known but aren't in the flight manual.
 
Inverted said:
And you think those pieces of information are more useful than the cockpit door completely opening under a depress event?
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I'm just not sure what you think is going to happen here, what you think the flight crew could do about it, or why you'd want them focused on anything other than getting o2 masks on, clearing the blood/snot/mucus, and assessing the situation.

Explosive decompressions are not entirely outside of the scope for procedure, but they're damned close to the edge of the envelope. This was 16,000'. At 34,000', TOUC is infinitely more important to the safety of flight than the state of the FD door.
 
Acrofox said:
I'm just not sure what you think is going to happen here, what you think the flight crew could do about it, or why you'd want them focused on anything other than getting o2 masks on, clearing the blood/snot/mucus, and assessing the situation.

Explosive decompressions are not entirely outside of the scope for procedure, but they're damned close to the edge of the envelope. This was 16,000'. At 34,000', TOUC is infinitely more important to the safety of flight than the state of the FD door.
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I would care less about the door in this situation, however that is different than not knowing it would happen. Would be pretty scary to have the cockpit door blow open out of nowhere and have no idea why. To me, it would be nice to know that it’s designed to do that in this situation. I guess I’m in the minority on this one. 🤷
 
Inverted said:
I would care less about the door in this situation, however that is different than not knowing it would happen. Would be pretty scary to have the cockpit door blow open out of nowhere and have no idea why. To me, it would be nice to know that it’s designed to do that in this situation. I guess I’m in the minority on this one. 🤷
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Well if it makes you feel any better it'll probably be in the book after this.

Still nobody will read it though :P
 
Inverted said:
I would care less about the door in this situation, however that is different than not knowing it would happen. Would be pretty scary to have the cockpit door blow open out of nowhere and have no idea why. To me, it would be nice to know that it’s designed to do that in this situation. I guess I’m in the minority on this one. 🤷
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I think you're assuming that all else is equal. I don't know the crew on this one, or what they experienced, but my assumption is that they suddenly had a lot to deal with, and the cockpit door was the least of their concerns. You might know more.

I don't disagree that knowing it would be interesting, but I just don't think it would be useful or pertinent. It's the sort of thing that, at my shop, would be buried in AOM volume 2 appendix B, that people like me would read out of curiosity.
 
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