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He was a real airhead.
A flight attendant broke his leg while restraining a passenger who tried to open the emergency exit on an international flight. Footage of the dramatic saga is currently taking off online.
“This individual suddenly went to one of the doors of the plane trying to manipulate 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 approximately halfway to the destination when the “restless” passenger began “annoying the person in the next seat with shouts and slapping him while he was asleep,” the flight rep recalled.
Fortunately, the crew members intervened and moved the flyer to another seat where he couldn’t bother anyone.
However, this was only the beginning of the bedlam. Moments later, the passenger went up to 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 ground with his hands tied after being restrained by the crew.
“Immediately, our cabin crew subdued the passenger and, following the action protocol, secured him in the back of the plane until he reached the destination,” the Plus Ultra spokesperson said. “At all times he was accompanied by two people from the crew, lying on the ground and attended to avoid any possible altercation.”
The culprit was detained upon arrival in Caracas.
Unfortunately, one of the flight attendants was injured while attempting to subdue the passenger.
“One of our cabin crew suffered a partial fracture of the fibula for which he has already been treated and which will keep him out for a few weeks,” the rep recalled.
As of yet, it’s unclear what motivated the passenger to try and open the emergency exit, which is reportedly impossible to do on modern aircraft like the A330 once they’ve attained an altitude of 10,000 feet.
That’s because the door is effectively sealed due to the differential between the internal cabin pressure and the outside 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 194 passengers in the wind-swept cabin.
While this feat might seem physically impossible, experts believe his inflight breach was facilitated by the fact that the air pressure had begun to equalize during the descent, ABC News reported
“It is possible at very low altitudes as we’ve seen here for that door to be opened while the aircraft is still in flight,” explained former Marine Col. Steve Ganyard.
