article_snippet.sent: ’ 'Not even the world's strongest man would be able to open' a plane door in mid-air, said one expert .
article_snippet.sent: What would happen if a plane’s door suddenly opened mid-flight?
article_snippet.sent: This ranks among passengers’ biggest fears, but ’ Mr Smith said it is extremely unlikely, if not impossible, for someone to open a plane’s door as the pressure inside the plane is much greater than the pressure outside.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Mr Smith said: ‘This means a plane’s door is being forced closed.
article_snippet.sent: Not even the world's strongest man would be able to open a plane’s door.
article_snippet.sent: In addition to any mechanical latching, most aircraft doors open inward before most aircraft doors open outward, and like a drain plug most aircraft doors are held in place by the forces of the pressurised cabin.
article_snippet.sent: If a door were to open somehow the result would be a very quick decompression, though in all likelihood not a destructive or catastrophic one.
highlights_snippet.sent: 'The world's strongest man' wouldn't be able to open a door mid-flight .