Originally Posted by
tom11011
Is anyone aware of any circumstance where a commercial airliners crash axe was used for any reason? In all my years of flying I cannot recall this as a topic of discussion.
a long time ago post 9/11 and pre reinforced cockpit doors on a 777 some knuckle head was breaching the cockpit door through the blowout panels. The captain was on break in the cabin, and one of the FOs bashed the breacher in the head with the crash axe. It worked.