Whoops! The lead on this flight is in toruble

[hiss srq]

http://www.airteamimages.com/40466.html Thats what happens when a lead fails to do the pre push walk or just did it imporperly (walking it improperly)

[cancidas]

very nice... must have popped open inflight though, doubt they would have departed with the door light showing open...

[hiss srq]

I do not know how that could happen though because its a plug type door

[PhilDernerJr]

Pretty sure that the pilots have warning lights that go off if any door ont he aircraft is open. So I'd assume it happened in-flight.

[hiss srq]

I honestly do not think so. Scientific logis says otherwise. Maybe the annunciator lights were burnt out. You have to realize these airplanes that fly out in that part of the world are not the most meticulously maintained in the industry. The plug door is next to impossible to have something like that happen to. I did a little furthur reading on the incident and it seems it happend very shortly after rotation in which case pressures would not play a factor. Perhaps the bolt locks inside the door that pop out when you close the handle and drop it into its slot broke but I just cannot even think of a way it could happen in flight. On the airbus maybe if the electronic system of closing and locking out hte door was inop possibly on one of them but just cant imagine it on the Maddog

[Midnight Mike]

There is a warning light for the aft cargo door, but, assuming it burned out, the airplane would have been not able to pressurize, or it could have partially pressurized, either way, the crew would have not gone to long before they figured it out....

[cancidas]

if there were no live animals in there then they might not have pressurized the bin.