escape hatches
Submarine crew's exits
Escape hatches are emergency exits, originally on ships and aircraft—small doors or openings allowing quick evacuation.
The term extends to any built-in way out of a difficult situation: contract clauses that allow termination, legal loopholes, or backup plans.
In programming, escape hatches let developers bypass normal constraints when standard approaches won't work: The framework provides escape hatches for edge cases.
- doorHinged room barrier
- fire exitDesignated escape route
- emergency exitsDesignated escape routes
- exitWay to leave
- way outMeans of departure
failsafe · loophole · lifeboats · panel · contingency · plan B · portal · bolt hole · opt-out · egress · submarine · legal exemption · evacuation procedures · manhole · refuge · pressure hull · tunnel · crawlspace
- elevatorselevator, elevators, elevator shaft, lift shaft, elevator doors
- emergency exitsfire exits, emergency exits, exit signs, fire doors, service stairs
- submarine partsperiscope, torpedo tubes, conning tower, ballast tanks, pressure hull
- fuselage partsnose, bulkhead, stringers, frames, ribs
escape hatchesprison cells
Confined inmate chambers
locked doors · dead ends · cages · traps · holding pens
escape hatchespoints of no return
Thresholds past which reversal impossible
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