189 passengers. and given the 189-passenger threshold, alaska would not have to have emergency exit doors at that location in the aircraft. alaska actually only has on this plane 178 seats. for higher density configuration emergency exit door would have to be on that air frame for anything certified at 200 passengers i m sorry, 215 passengers or 220 passengers. but this door mid-cabin door plug, there s one on the left, there s one on the right. they are not operational. what you would see in the cabin if you are a passenger is a window and just part of the
is sold to multiple customers. and the customers will order the design that they need for their operations. this particular aircraft for alaska is certified for up to 189 passengers. and given the 189 passenger threshold, alaska would not have to have emergency exit doors at that location in the aircraft. alaska actually only has on this plane 178 seats. for a higher-density configuration, the emergency exit door would have to be on that air frame for anything certified at 200 passengers i m sorry, 215 passengers, or 220 passengers.
189 passengers. given the 189 passenger threshold, alaska would not have to have emergency exit doors at that location in the aircraft. alaska actually only has on this plane 178 seats. but this mid cabin door plug, there is one on the left, there is one on the right, they are not operational. what you would see in the cabin if you are a passenger is a window and just part of the cabin. you would not see those as doors unless you are outside of the aircraft. now, we know that there were 171 passengers on board the airplane. with two pilots. the captain was flying at the time. they also had four flight attendants on board. fortunately all passengers deplaned. we are not aware of any serious
very ordered, and indeed, there seems to be no sense of rush there. that s something which as an investigator, i would be looking at because in evacuation does need to proceed at a suitable pace. it is excellent news that everybody left that aircraft in one piece. as we understand, it s equally important to the investigators to look at the things that went well that led to that very good outcome, as to look at other things. it was interesting apparently only three of the emergency exit doors and their accompanying escape slides were used, the nose of the aircraft was very low to the ground, the slides were at a very shallow angle and people were having to kind of screwed on them rather than falling down under gravity, whereas at the left door was a very steep angle. nevertheless a usable angle. this is all the things that the
this happened minutes before the arrival at 700 feet in the air. one pilot that flies this specific type of plane explains the pressure in this cabin is equalized under 1,000 feet. meaning the weight of the door wouldn t being a big of a hurdle as it would be as a higher altitude. still, there s multiple safety features on these emergency exit doors like multiple pins, latches or even locks that are in the control room to prevent this the cabin and the cockpit to prevent this from happening. so this is raising a lot of questions, john, about whether or not this person knew how to do this before he did. john? john: i ve never heard of such a thing before. but now i have to watch for that as well. alex hogan in london. thank you. just before we go, i said flags of honor. i should have said flags of valor. i had honor on the brown with honor project.