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The way that Boeing 7s are designed these days don't really leave any room for "dumping of cargo" unless it's a heavily modified military transport. 7xx Bulkhead and hatch doors are specifically designed for jambing/locking in pressurized flight so that the cargo doors are forced closed by locking mechanisms and kept closed by differential pressure. A bulkhead failure/breach/opening of a door in cruise or midflight is usually a very very bad thing to happen on an airplane, especially if it happens aft of the wings or in the cargo section of the plane. The pressure differential alone usually causes damages much worse than the losing of a bulkhead or a window- cabin floors collapse, hydraulic lines are severed. Hell, the structural loads sustained by a plane at cruising altitude undergoing explosive decompression has been, in certain circumstances, enough to rip part/most of the vertical stabilizer right off the back of the plane.
Point being, aircraft bulkhead doors are designed specifically to protect against being opened in mid-flight. To design them with the capability to also open at a pilot's/mechanics behest is sort've counter-intuitive.
Air flight is the safest form of travel, without exception. It seems like a dangerous way to travel to a a regular joe shmoe because every time a commercial jetliner goes down (in America, at least) there's huge new coverage. A lot of the ridiculous air crashes we've seen where planes go down in spectacular fashion (American Airlines 191, Alaska Airlines 261, AA587) were in the end caused by improper maitenance or pilot error. That doesn't keep the NSTB and the aircraft companies from constantly redesigning their aircraft to protect against human stupidity- effectively since the 60s people like Boeing have been 'designing out' potential ways that aircraft can crash. That doesn't keep people from figuring out new ways to crash planes (American Airlines 587), but it's much better than it ever was.
Point being, aircraft bulkhead doors are designed specifically to protect against being opened in mid-flight. To design them with the capability to also open at a pilot's/mechanics behest is sort've counter-intuitive.
Air flight is the safest form of travel, without exception. It seems like a dangerous way to travel to a a regular joe shmoe because every time a commercial jetliner goes down (in America, at least) there's huge new coverage. A lot of the ridiculous air crashes we've seen where planes go down in spectacular fashion (American Airlines 191, Alaska Airlines 261, AA587) were in the end caused by improper maitenance or pilot error. That doesn't keep the NSTB and the aircraft companies from constantly redesigning their aircraft to protect against human stupidity- effectively since the 60s people like Boeing have been 'designing out' potential ways that aircraft can crash. That doesn't keep people from figuring out new ways to crash planes (American Airlines 587), but it's much better than it ever was.