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Airline: Passenger on Boise-bound flight tried to open cabin door in midair
KTVB ^
| Mar 5, 2018
Posted on 03/05/2018 7:19:04 PM PST by BenLurkin
Passengers intervened to take down a woman who attempted to open an airplane cabin door during a flight to Boise Monday morning.
The incident happened onboard SkyWest flight 5449 from San Francisco to Boise.
A spokesman for SkyWest Airlines said the "unruly customer" was restrained, and the flight was able to land safely at the Boise Airport. Boise Police met the plane at the gate, and took the woman into custody.
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TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: airplane; flying; unrulypassenger
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posted on
03/05/2018 7:19:04 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
I guess her name is Deborah Barbara Cooper.
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posted on
03/05/2018 7:27:48 PM PST
by
TaMoDee
(Go Pack Go! The Pack will be back in 2018!)
To: BenLurkin
An “Asian woman”, perhaps?
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posted on
03/05/2018 7:32:27 PM PST
by
bwest
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/05/2018 7:35:14 PM PST
by
Jim Noble
(Single payer is coming. Which kind do you like?)
To: BenLurkin
I hope the medical evaluation was required as a result of her interaction with her fellow passengers.
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posted on
03/05/2018 7:36:16 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: Jim Noble
Obviously small town cops and reporters. They didn’t even include the standard ‘Not Terrorism Related” boilerplate language.
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posted on
03/05/2018 7:37:25 PM PST
by
PAR35
To: BenLurkin
Every now and then we get one of these passenger trying to open the cabin door mid-flight stories. It is inevitably followed by comments from nervous flyers who think that it was only by some miracle that disaster was averted.
Of course, the immense pressure holding the door closed makes it impossible to open the door (D.B. Cooper was a unique event because of his planning and the 727s rear airstair). I think they should just let these idiots keep trying to open the door, because eventually theyll wear themselves out and maybe be more compliant when they go to restrain them.
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posted on
03/05/2018 7:39:49 PM PST
by
noiseman
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
03/05/2018 7:40:58 PM PST
by
Innovative
("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
To: BenLurkin
Good that the passengers intervened immediately.
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posted on
03/05/2018 7:41:53 PM PST
by
Innovative
("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
To: noiseman
Of course, the immense pressure holding the door closed makes it impossible to open the door (D.B. Cooper was a unique event because of his planning and the 727s rear airstair). I think they should just let these idiots keep trying to open the door, because eventually theyll wear themselves out and maybe be more compliant when they go to restrain them. Gee, I never thought of that!
I knew that cabin doors were designed so that the cabin pressure keeps them closed, but that raises another question: in the 727, how in the word did they keep that enormous door for the rear stair closed against cabin pressure when at high altitude? The door was much bigger than a typical cabin door, and it was obviously openable in flight, as proven by ol' D.B.
I wonder how they managed that? Must have been some pretty clever mechanical engineering.
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posted on
03/05/2018 7:43:33 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: BenLurkin
No name released, or picture.
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posted on
03/05/2018 7:44:52 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: BenLurkin
Isn’t it even a little obvious that these people are off their rocker BEFORE they board the plane?!?
To: Steely Tom
Rear ramp on a 727 has hydraulics to raise and lower.
Now have db cooper locks. Plane under power no workie
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posted on
03/05/2018 7:55:21 PM PST
by
Keyhopper
(Indians had bad immigration laws)
To: BenLurkin
It was either that or end up in Boise.
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posted on
03/05/2018 7:57:58 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
(Pray for America)
To: Steely Tom
...in the 727, how in the word did they keep that enormous door for the rear stair closed against cabin pressure when at high altitude? There was a more conventional door at the back of the cabin that maintained cabin pressure and that would have to be opened first. The air stair was in an unpressurized area of the fuselage beyond that. From what I recall, D.B. Cooper had the pilot descend to an altitude at which the cabin could be depressurized, permitting him to exit via the rear airstair.
After the D.B. Cooper incident, airlines were required to install small vanes on the exterior of the airstair that generated a vortex and made it impossible to open that door in flight as well.
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posted on
03/05/2018 8:01:06 PM PST
by
noiseman
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
To: noiseman
There was a more conventional door at the back of the cabin that maintained cabin pressure and that would have to be opened first. The air stair was in an unpressurized area of the fuselage beyond that. From what I recall, D.B. Cooper had the pilot descend to an altitude at which the cabin could be depressurized, permitting him to exit via the rear airstair. That sounds right, thanks!
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posted on
03/05/2018 8:03:09 PM PST
by
Steely Tom
([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
To: Steely Tom
There is a pressurized door at the top of the Rear Stairway on a 727.
The compartment the stairs fold up into is not pressurized.
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posted on
03/05/2018 8:11:31 PM PST
by
Kickass Conservative
( An Armed Society is a Polite Society. An Unarmed Society is North Korea.)
To: TaMoDee
An aspiring DB Cooperettte. FAIL!
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posted on
03/05/2018 8:13:23 PM PST
by
dennisw
(The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong)
To: Innovative
pharmaceutical experimentation my guess.
To: P.O.E.
It was either that or end up in Boise.It seems that half of Californians are moving to Boise, so it can't be all bad.
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posted on
03/05/2018 8:19:33 PM PST
by
Disambiguator
(Keepin' it analog.)
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