2007-03-19 05:24:10 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Aircraft
First, no windows on modern jets are made to open. Some airliners, mostly older I think, have side windows on the windshield that slide open. If a door is made to open to the inside of the aircraft, the cabin pressure will prevent it from being opened at altitude. If it opens to the outside, you could still open it, but would be "blown" out of the aircraft in the process. Planes can be pressurized on the ground for maintenance reasons, but it must be within the allowable pressure differential in the aircrafts limitations. That would be the difference between the outside air pressure and cabin pressure.
2007-03-19 09:04:02 · answer #1 · answered by JET_DOC 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No window (with the exception of the side cockpit windows) open. Even if they did, positive pressure inside would keep them from being opened. If you got by all that you would die from the lack of Oxygen
2007-03-19 07:56:33 · answer #2 · answered by walt554 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You could die. There is not enough oxygen in the thin air at that altitude. You would first lose consciousness or worse yet, the pilot would, then turn blue and die.
2007-03-19 13:34:01 · answer #3 · answered by Aldo the Apache 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The negative pressure will suck you out like a vacuum cleaner sucks a fly off the window!
2007-03-19 05:29:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Did you ever see the James Bond movie with the big fat guy going out the window? Thats why!
2007-03-19 06:26:37 · answer #5 · answered by Tracy L 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It sucks the drinks off your tray...I just hate when that happens...
2007-03-19 05:31:11 · answer #6 · answered by nalla 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because the toilet wouldn't flush then.
2007-03-19 11:30:22 · answer #7 · answered by baron_von_party 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋