We have special words for places that lock people in so they cannot get out; 'airplane' isn't one of them.
Definitely a money grab. If she was really that concerned, the emergency exit doors deploy one of those slides so why the fuck couldn't she figure that out???
Googling your words brought up this story from the UK, which makes me doubt it would be that easy.
Wanna bet the doors are only armed as a pre-flight procedure and are routinely disarmed post-flight? If they were always 'at the ready', there wouldn't be an arming procedure at all.A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight from Manchester, England to Islamabad faced a seven-hour delay on Friday night after a passenger somehow mistook the emergency exit for a toilet. The female passenger onboard Friday night’s PIA flight PK702 inadvertently opened the exit while the plane was on the ground at Manchester airport – because the exit was ‘armed’ the emergency slide was automatically deployed.
It’s not entirely clear how the woman mistook the emergency exit for a toilet. As a reminder, this is the what a Boeing 777 door looks like…
As you can see, in order to open the door you have to pull the lever up and over 18o degrees. It takes quite some effort to pull the lever but once you’ve completed this movement, an emergency system automatically takes over and pushes the door out into the open position, causing the slide to deploy.
If the door had not been ‘armed’ then the slide would not deploy and the door would only open if pushed outwards.
Sounds highly suspicious to me. It would be highly negligible of the crew to miss a sleeping passenger sitting in her seat, or even lying down across three seats. Not impossible, but fairly astronomical odds.
At first I felt sorry for her in view of the fact that airlines (especially in North America as based on experience) do screw up from time to time. Now however, I'm inclined to think like you do on this subject.
Be careful. I've seen video of drunk people laying on open roads followed by large vehicles running over them. If they had to do it all over again they'd probably choose to pass on the drinks.
