Originally Posted by
bay982
WSJ reporting:
"What the flight crew didn’t know at the time, federal investigators said Monday, was that it was supposed to happen that way.
Boeing had designed the cockpit door to open during a rapid decompression incident, they said. The company just hadn’t said so in the manual."
Boeing says the cockpit door is supposed to blow open during a rapid D.
Amazing. Have you guys ever heard this?
The entire door doesn't open. The "doggy door" on the bottom and the top open. It's in the Boeing system handbook under general. Those panels aren't there for dogs...