As a foll0w-up to Wednesday’s airport applications, here is one more. As most of you know, the codes require egress doors to be operable without special knowledge or effort. This door is on a something like a bus that moves people around the airport (except with “normal” doors), but I couldn’t figure out what the exit instructions were trying to say.
Can you interpret the process?
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Pull up on the “D Ring”””. Which I am guessing releases the stairs ?
Open the door
Walk down the stairs
And that was,,, you must be a “”” Million Miler Member” by now!!!!
so, the instructions seem to say, get on your hands and knees and pull the release lever.
Then it goes on to say stand up and open the door (showing bi-fold door) then go down the emergency stairs
while being chased by fire.. LOL
“Trained” staff (not passengers) pulls up on handle (likely drops the stair or releases door), then opens bifolding door and passengers run down the stair.
It’s not a “building”,
Hmmm ….
“In case of fire, use stairs.” As opposed to using the elevator to get out of the bus??
Assuming the D-ring drops the stairs, I feel sorry for the guy kneeling down to pull the ring while the other passengers yank the door open in a panic and knock him silly, turning him into a human speed bump in front of the door.
The sign on the door says passengers aren’t allowed to open the door. That makes it tough to exit in an emergency.
If the arrows on the signs indicate the direction of travel, why are you supposed to walk backward away from the door?
If the bus crashes and rolls over, gravity won’t help lower the stairs. I’m thinking it’ll take more than five pounds of force and a lot of effort to swing the stairs away from the door. When the first passenger flees in terror, instead of holding the stairs away from the door so others can get out, the next person through the door will have an imprint of a stair on his/her forehead.
First, how do you get to the fire extinguisher with 45 people sitting around it? Second, where is the fire extinguisher? Third, is it a fire extinguisher or an air horn? It’s hard to tell from the silhouette on the sign.
But disregarding all of the death-defying problems, it seems perfect.
Yes, I can see that on the surface of it the directions can seem a bit confused. I recoginze this locationsand it is indeed like a bus, as it is on board one of the “people movers” at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, DC.
These were originally the idea of Eero Sarinen when he originally designe the airport. They look like large “moon buggies” or something futuristic. The idea was to load these up with people and this vehicle would unload the people right into the airplane; no jet bridges back then! By the 1980’s & 90’s when they built a mid-field terminal they converted them to simply ferry people between the main and mid-field terminal.
If you Google “dulles people movers” you are sure to find lots of current and vintage 1960 photos of them.
The first picture indicates to pull up on the d-ring, although the D-ring location isn’t clearly marked. The second picture indicates that the door swings inward. Third picture indicates to proceed down the stairs.