Passenger opens door at 23,000 feet, takes a leap of faith.

I assumed it happened pretty quickly? If I saw someone trying to
open a door, patient or no patient, something heavy would have been
applied to the back of their head. Everything I read says he jumped
out, and wasn't sucked out when the plane depressurized.

http://www.canada.com/news/RCMP+resu...253/story.html

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EDMONTON — Less than a day before he jumped out of an airplane over
the Arctic without a parachute, Julien Tologanak had been detained by
the RCMP under the Mental Health Act.

Tologanak forced open the door of a charter flight on Wednesday, while
the airplane was seven kilometres above the barren Arctic landscape.
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Duh_OZ wrote:
I assumed it happened pretty quickly? If I saw someone trying to
open a door, patient or no patient, something heavy would have been
applied to the back of their head. Everything I read says he jumped
out, and wasn't sucked out when the plane depressurized.

http://www.canada.com/news/RCMP+resu...253/story.html


Think he survived?

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Peter X-Files fan

On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:06:28 +0100, "Trust No One®"
wrote:

Duh_OZ wrote:
I assumed it happened pretty quickly? If I saw someone trying to
open a door, patient or no patient, something heavy would have been
applied to the back of their head. Everything I read says he jumped
out, and wasn't sucked out when the plane depressurized.

http://www.canada.com/news/RCMP+resu...253/story.html


Think he survived?

I'm sure he did. The snow's soft up there, right?

It wouldn't work if someone tried this in-flight on a commercial
airliner. The doors open inward and the pressurization would make
this impossible to do. This incident was in a King Air and those
doors open differently.

I agree with the OP, though. A nice heavy object would prevent some
clown from trying something else when he figured out the emergency
exit door wasn't going to open.