A woman who tried to open an emergency exit door on a plane flying into Detroit yesterday was restrained by other passengers and arrested after the aircraft landed.
A spokesperson for Republic Airlines told Newsweek today: “We’re aware of an incident which occurred on our flight 5972 on Monday evening. While we can confirm that the flight landed without incident and ahead of schedule, we're unable to further comment as this matter is still being investigated. We apologize to any passengers who were affected by this incident.”
WXYZ-TV reported that she had tried to exit the plane using the boarding door, causing alarm. Passengers were forced to restrain the woman for the remaining duration of the flight.
It's impossible to open the door of a pressurized plane in flight, so they should have let her keep at it until she tuckered herself out and had a nap. Would have probably been more entertaining than the in-flight movie.
i would hope there was more than passengers restraining her