For people who know about planes. Are there any spaces behind bathroom walls

[snagglepuss]

big enough for a person to hide in? Could someone with the help of ground crew secrete himself behind a wall, emerging after a plane is in the air?

[quinnox]

1. wow, what a wild theory

I don't know, but I give it points for imagination!

[snagglepuss]

4. How can this be more wild than the story itself? It's hard to believe

that the pilot or co-pilot who seem like easy going guys would hijack the plane and it doesn't appear that any of the passengers have the skill to fly a plane or a motive to hijack.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. No. Airplane designers don't waste any space.

If there was enough available space in that area it would probably be included in the bathroom - those are awfully small as it is.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Yep. If there was space for a person, they'd put a seat there and charge someone for it.

No wasted space on a plane, not unlike a well designed sailboat.

[MADem]

5. They don't even give up enough room for the flight attendants to sit

comfortably. On a full flight, they can put their asses down on a jump seat and nothing more!

[snooper2]

6. Yes but don't fucking tell everybody!

That's where I stick my carry-on when all the overhead bins are full!

SSHHHHHH!!!!

[brooklynite]

7. To what purpose?

Why not just buy a ticket? The cockpit is still locked, and you'd just be one of 300 passengers.

[snagglepuss]

8. I think this hijacking is a dry run. I don't think anyone will

ever claim responsibility because those who did this don't want extra scrutiny, it's in their interest for authorities to be kept wondering who's responsible. Hiding someone in the plane would insure complete anonymity and/or perhaps the perp is on a no fly list so he wouldn't be able to board to begin with.

[brooklynite]

9. A dry run for WHAT?

Seriously, if you have a pilot willing to divert the aircraft, what are you trying to practice?

[snagglepuss]

10. No one knows if it was the pilot who diverted the plane. As for what they are

practicing perhaps for another 9/11. All conjecture I admit but this is a strange event. It the one of the crew wanted to commit suicide why not crash the plane as soon as it was above open water, why reprogramme the flight path? All we know is that the plane was diverted and there has been no claim of responsibility.

[brooklynite]

11. The last radio communication has been confirmed as the Co-Pilot....

...and occured after ACARS was shut off.

Personally, I apply to this the same principles I apply to religion: it's perfectly acceptable for the answer to a question to be "I don't know".

[pinboy3niner]

12. Shhh. That's where they keep the snakes.

[Orrex]

13. Ew. Nobody likes to read about bathroom secretion.