News Life Imitates Absolutely Fabulous
posted by on July 28 at 7:06 AM
From the Associated Press
Two drunken British women went on a rampage on a charter plane, hitting one flight attendant with a bottle of vodka and trying to open a cabin door as the aircraft was cruising over Austria at 10,000 meters (32,800 feet).
Full story here.
Oh, Patsy. Tryng to renew your mile high membership again?
The hammer is my penis.
drunks on a flight
really
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'"Apparently the 26-year-old wanted to catch some fresh air," the statement said, in an effort to make light of the altercation.'
At first I thought this was pretty funny but now I wonder. How hard IS IT to open one of those doors? I've never seen an attendant use any kind of lock or anything.
During flight, the difference in pressure between the inside and outside of the airplane presses these doors shut, so no worries there.
We need more females like this around the area.
It's all fixable.
Caya @5, sarcasm?
At altitude, the pressurized cabin is eager to blow its doors wide open to the low pressure outside.
Actually, lostboy, it makes sense. The inside pressure pushes the door against the rim (for lack of a better word) on the plane body. Those doors have to open inward first and then be pushed out.
@5, 8 and 9: Please! Just use a gun and blow out a few windows... That is much more effective!
I wonder how this article would have been presented if it were 2 woman from any given middle eastern country..AbFab jokes? I doubt it...
El Seven @9, thanks. I had read Maya's comment @5 with an outside-in assumption that isn't in her(?) text.
@5,8,9: Well now, it depends. Some doors open inward. Some open outward. Some are hinged at the top.
You've probably boarded a plane through one of those outward-opening doors up near the cockpit before, right? Well, let's say you wanted to open it while the plane was in the air. You've got the pressure inside the cabin wanting to push the door outward, and you've also got the air outside rushing by at ~500 miles an hour pushing the door backward and inward. Then there's the influence of whatever door locking mechanism is installed on the thing. So unless you know what kind of door it is and how the mechanism works, it's tough to say how easy or hard it is to open the door at 30,000 feet.
Thanks, as usual, Schmader for pulling out another cultural reference that will cause me to waste an entire weekend inside binge-watching an entire TV series. Oh crap, I should track down The Young Ones too...
@13, wait a minute. If the air outside is rushing by at such velocity, that would cause a negative pressure zone as compared to the inside of the plane and pull on the door even more, no? That's Bernoulli.
Flying home on Friday. Will try and report back.
Just kidding TSA monitors!!!
Zach at 11: Duh. AbFab was about DRUNK BRITISH WOMEN.
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