delivery so it s unlikely that door had been changed since it was manufactured and delivered to the airline. they will figure out what the cause was, and they will make sure they know whether this was a very unique event to this one airplane, or if there was an issue with that kind of exit on other airplanes of similar types. can you put yourself in the cockpit of that flight and tell us this alaska airlines flight, and describe how the pilots handled this? it sounds as though the pilots and crew handled it perfectly. what is your sense of it? that s certainly the impression i get from what we know, what little we know. apparently there was a cockpit alert, as there should have been, when that exit was opened. the cockpit crew would have been aware of the pressure changing, and they would know they need to descend to an altitude where