On Jan 19, 9:32*am, Martin Gregorie
wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 08:39:02 -0800, Darryl Ramm wrote:
That sucker floated quite well if water was coming in the rear door
and the ditch switch was not activated.

A report I saw today said the rear door was not opened. The cabin crew
realized it was partly underwater and stopped a passenger from trying to
open it.

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martin@ * | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
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There is at least one media report saying that a passenger was able to
partially open a rear door. There is also conflicting reports about
wether flight attendants tried to open the rear doors themselves first
or had asked passengers to do this before realizing this was a bad
idea. There are reports of passengers talking about water in the rear
of the plane fairly quickly. A door may have actually been partially
opened or this water from other sources may have made people think a
door was opened. I won't provide links here, it's easily googleable.
We will have to wait until clearer information to (hopefully) know for
sure, the NTSB report will be interesting reading.

Darryl