Concorde Fuselage Doors

 

Included on this page, Passenger Doors – Service Doors – Baggage Compartments & Miscellaneous Doors – Flight Deck Door

Concorde has two passenger and four cabin service exterior doors, upper and a lower baggage compartment doors and several miscellaneous ground servicing doors. The interior doors consist of four lavatory doors and a flight deck door. All of the doors are operated manually.

 

PASSENGER & SERVICE DOORS

 

There are two passenger outward opening doors on the left-hand side of the fuselage. One forward and the other midway along the passenger compartment, provide normal entry and exit for passengers and crew, and may be opened from inside or outside the aircraft.

There are four outward opening service doors. Two on the right-hand side of the fuselage opposite the passenger doors, and two , one each side of the fuselage at the rear end of the passenger compartment, providing access to the crew and passenger compartment for servicing between flights, and may be opened from either inside or outside the aircraft

All these doors may be used for emergency evacuation of the aircraft and are provided with escape equipment (There will be another section coming soon that gives a full description of all escape and emergency equipment).

The two passenger doors and the intermediate cabin service doors are fitted with slide/raft escape facilities, while the forward and two rear cabin service doors are fitted with escape slide only. Each forward passenger and forward cabin service doors are fitted with an observation window.