If it was at high enough altitude to cause decompression, first, the decompression would not be “catastrophic”, the fuselage is under less stress when decompressed than when pressurized, and second, he wouldn’t be able to open it.Hope he gets terrorist charges and gets put in for the max. Doing that is beyond despicable. Imagine if it was at high enough altitude to cause catastrophic fuselage decompression. No wonder pilots first reaction is to get the plane down just in case it escalates.
Let‘s do some rough math.
Look at the door in question. It is held against the locking lugs when under pressure.
It is roughly 72 inches high. 36 inches wide. So, roughly 2,600 square inches.
The plane pressurizes to a max of 9psi. But let’s use 8 for our calculation.
8 x 2,600 is over 20,000 lbs of force to move the door.
Doubt anyone can apply that…