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Comment Re:Wired article wheel fire (Score 1) 208

You can't crack a cabin door open at altitude. The cabin is pressurized relative to the outside air, and the cabin door is plug fit, meaning it plugs the hole like a stopper in a basin. You have to pull the door into the plane, against the pressure, in order to open it. A mere thousand feet up, the pressure on the door is something like 1500 pounds.

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