Re: Fire Ax?

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The new cockpit doors will survive attack by a smash ax. Or metal
cutlery or scissors.

On Feb 24, 2004, at 20:36, Gerard M Foley wrote:
> On the Discovery Wings Channel broadcast of an episode of "Airport"
> (about
> Heathrow ops) just now:
>
> A Czech probationary FA was asked what to do if there was a fire in
> the lav.
> She looked slightly taken aback, then went to an overhead and took out
> a
> smoke hood and fire extinguisher.  She then went to the lav door and
> felt it
> to see if it was hot.  Asked what to do if it was hot, she went back
> (to the
> galley?) and came back with a fire ax.  She then said she would hack a
> hole
> in the door and squirt the extinguisher through the hole.
>
> Fire ax??  Where are the nail scissors and metal cutlery?

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