Can a person in the cargo hold, be able to transverse to the passenger area while the craft is in flight.?

in these airplane hijacking movies the ';bad guys'; are always hiding in the cargo hold...could this really be done or is this hollywoodCan a person in the cargo hold, be able to transverse to the passenger area while the craft is in flight.?
It varies. Most airliners can be ordered either with or without an access hatch between the passenger cabin and the cargo spaces. Some do, and others don't. (There are always access panels, but in many cases you have to take up the carpet and unbolt a panel. These are opened only during major maintenance on the aircraft.)





The cargo holds of virtually all airliners are pressurized and can be occupied safely by people and animals. I wish people would not post answers about things they don't know about.





So the correct answer is, ';Yes and no, usually...';Can a person in the cargo hold, be able to transverse to the passenger area while the craft is in flight.?
On certain large jumbo aircraft, you can access the cargo hold from the cabin.





If the cargo hold is unpressurized, you're going to pass out from lack of oxygen, or freeze.





Contrary to the other post, the human body won't ';explode'; in an unpressurized hold, at normal airliner altitudes. WWII bombers flew at the same altitudes with completely unpressurized crew areas. They just hooked up to the oxygen, and carried on.
That crap is science fiction, just like the cargo door in the movie Air Force 1.





All passenger aircraft have pressurized and heated cargo holds. If they didn't, your feet would be very cold, like flying on a C130 with the underfloor heat inop.





All of the liquids in you luggage would also freeze and any pressurized cans would pop.
The cargo bays are lined (fully enclosed). It would take tools to get through them. Floor beams are about 2 feet apart, but the space under (or through) them is chock full of stuff- poer lines, fuel lines to the APU, water and waste lines, control wires and/or cables, hydraulics, etc. You would have to cut through a lot of stuff to get through there, unless you ordered an access hatch- most airlines don't.
It is possible from the lower forward cargo area but not from the aft. All cargo hold areas are pressurized on modern aircraft.
As Avio said, it depends on the airplane. They're not all unpressurized or unheated; how do you think you ship animals?
No, in most planes the cargo hold is not pressurized so they would explode all over your luggage.
it can be done, all the bad guys got to do is hold on to the cargo and then shoot the good guys!