Drunk passenger breaks plane window with arm - Airliners-India

Akshay · Member

Drunk passenger breaks plane window with arm

vivekman · Member

It looks like the actual window was not broken but the inner acrylic layer. The outer glass layer must be still intact. In fact, the inner layer is not that strong and it gets bent (although elastically) if you push against it.

HAWK21M · Member

There are Three Layers.

Outer & Inner are the Load Bearing ones.The Inboard most is an Acrylic layer & can be cracked.No big deal.

The Question was Why did it occur.Was it Intentional.

regds

MEL

-- Edited by HAWK21M at 01:11, 2006-07-21

karatecatman · Member

Yes, its easy to break the inner window.

In an old and grounded NEPC Airlines F27 in Chennai, aircraft engineers once showed how its quite easy to just smash through with a bare hand.

-- Edited by karatecatman at 14:04, 2006-07-21

the_380 · Member

This is my experience...

When at Nepal i flew RNAC between pokhra and kathmandu, the Cessna Twin Otter we flew didnt have windows on the co-pilot side!

The a/c flies at generally 6,000-7,000 ft above the GROUND