He was an actual airhead.
A flight attendant broke his leg while restraining a passenger who tried to open the emergency exit on a global flight. Footage of the dramatic saga is currently taking off online.
“This individual suddenly went to considered one of the doors of the plane trying to govern it,” a spokesperson for Plus Ultra Airlines told Jam Press while recounting the inflight fracas.
The incident reportedly transpired on February 28 aboard Flight 701 from Madrid, Spain, to Caracas, Venezuela.
The Airbus 330 was roughly halfway to the destination when the “restless” passenger began “annoying the person in the following seat with shouts and slapping him while he was asleep,” the flight rep recalled.
Fortunately, the crew members intervened and moved the flyer to a different seat where he couldn’t hassle anyone.
Nonetheless, this was only the start of the bedlam. Moments later, the passenger went as much as the emergency hatch and tried to open it, causing passengers to panic.
Viral footage shows crew members attempting to restrain the miscreant during his ill-advised door dash as bystanders cry out in shock.
The clip concludes with the passenger lying on the bottom along with his hands tied after being restrained by the crew.
“Immediately, our cabin crew subdued the passenger and, following the motion protocol, secured him behind the plane until he reached the destination,” the Plus Ultra spokesperson said. “In any respect times he was accompanied by two people from the crew, lying on the bottom and attended to avoid any possible altercation.”
The wrongdoer was detained upon arrival in Caracas.
Unfortunately, considered one of the flight attendants was injured while attempting to subdue the passenger.
“One among our cabin crew suffered a partial fracture of the fibula for which he has already been treated and which can keep him out for just a few weeks,” the rep recalled.
As of yet, it’s unclear what motivated the passenger to attempt to open the emergency exit, which is reportedly not possible to do on modern aircraft just like the A330 once they’ve attained an altitude of 10,000 feet.
That’s since the door is effectively sealed because of the differential between the inner cabin pressure and the surface air.
Nonetheless, passengers have managed to open doors in flight before.
In 2023, a passenger aboard a South Korean flight opened an emergency door moments before the plane landed — causing panic among the many 194 passengers within the wind-swept cabin.
While this feat may appear physically not possible, experts imagine his inflight breach was facilitated by the indisputable fact that the air pressure had begun to equalize throughout the descent, ABC News reported
“It is feasible at very low altitudes as we’ve seen here for that door to be opened while the aircraft remains to be in flight,” explained former Marine Col. Steve Ganyard.
He was an actual airhead.
A flight attendant broke his leg while restraining a passenger who tried to open the emergency exit on a global flight. Footage of the dramatic saga is currently taking off online.
“This individual suddenly went to considered one of the doors of the plane trying to govern it,” a spokesperson for Plus Ultra Airlines told Jam Press while recounting the inflight fracas.
The incident reportedly transpired on February 28 aboard Flight 701 from Madrid, Spain, to Caracas, Venezuela.
The Airbus 330 was roughly halfway to the destination when the “restless” passenger began “annoying the person in the following seat with shouts and slapping him while he was asleep,” the flight rep recalled.
Fortunately, the crew members intervened and moved the flyer to a different seat where he couldn’t hassle anyone.
Nonetheless, this was only the start of the bedlam. Moments later, the passenger went as much as the emergency hatch and tried to open it, causing passengers to panic.
Viral footage shows crew members attempting to restrain the miscreant during his ill-advised door dash as bystanders cry out in shock.
The clip concludes with the passenger lying on the bottom along with his hands tied after being restrained by the crew.
“Immediately, our cabin crew subdued the passenger and, following the motion protocol, secured him behind the plane until he reached the destination,” the Plus Ultra spokesperson said. “In any respect times he was accompanied by two people from the crew, lying on the bottom and attended to avoid any possible altercation.”
The wrongdoer was detained upon arrival in Caracas.
Unfortunately, considered one of the flight attendants was injured while attempting to subdue the passenger.
“One among our cabin crew suffered a partial fracture of the fibula for which he has already been treated and which can keep him out for just a few weeks,” the rep recalled.
As of yet, it’s unclear what motivated the passenger to attempt to open the emergency exit, which is reportedly not possible to do on modern aircraft just like the A330 once they’ve attained an altitude of 10,000 feet.
That’s since the door is effectively sealed because of the differential between the inner cabin pressure and the surface air.
Nonetheless, passengers have managed to open doors in flight before.
In 2023, a passenger aboard a South Korean flight opened an emergency door moments before the plane landed — causing panic among the many 194 passengers within the wind-swept cabin.
While this feat may appear physically not possible, experts imagine his inflight breach was facilitated by the indisputable fact that the air pressure had begun to equalize throughout the descent, ABC News reported
“It is feasible at very low altitudes as we’ve seen here for that door to be opened while the aircraft remains to be in flight,” explained former Marine Col. Steve Ganyard.
