Passenger arrested for opening emergency exit door 850 feet in the air l GMA

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Published 2023-05-26

South Korean police said a 33-year-old passenger opened the door of the Asiana Airlines flight after the pilot made the routine announcement that the plane was about to land.

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All Comments (21)

@Cappellano 6 months ago

The man gambled with 194 lives. He deserves a serious punishment. Bravo to the pilot and crew for handling this worst case scenario situation. You are heroes
@Absorbing146 6 months ago

The ride of a life time they will never forget
@wendyd1996 6 months ago

This crazy person should be banned for life to take any planes!
@christian77 6 months ago

I feel like since covid happened, people have gone crazier, stupider, ruder, and more entitled.
@scillyautomatic 6 months ago

Craziness knows no boundaries nor borders.
@RizzYourMother 6 months ago

He should get way more than 10 years. He put everyone life at risk and I can only imagine the trauma some of these people faced.
@RoseNZieg 6 months ago

10 years? 12 people had to go to the hospital. I hope each one of them pursue their own criminal and civil case against him.
@Just-Princess 6 months ago

I've flown on that airline (it's great) when I was living in Seoul. The 2 passengers we can see next to the open door seem to managing it fairly well. The man sitting who opened it is out of frame. Thank God nobody was seriously harmed.
@celebrityrog 6 months ago

Emergency doors are pressurized and can’t be opened in the air unless the cabin isn’t pressurized at all. Which might be why at 800 feet this was possible. Ban him from ever flying on any airline again. That means even back to his own home nation. Boats still work.
@JayBenjaminx 6 months ago

Is it harder to land a plane when the pressure is like that and the door's open? Those passengers looked really calm to me. I would have been freaking out. Good job to the pilot and staff.
@jaystone_3221 6 months ago

Omg wow, I'm speechless. I know those passengers in that row now have permanent PTSD. Hopefully, they all are okay
@metime4325 6 months ago

Those two guys sitting right next to the exit... I bet they'll never book their seats next to the doors ever again.
@robertpalmer3166 6 months ago

Sounds like attempted murder to me.
@nessparadis6948 6 months ago

They all looked so calm 😂
@stanford-nf4jk 6 months ago

There’s ALWAYS that one person who wants to be the first off the plane!
@katiem4539 6 months ago

Why do people endanger others like this!??? Ruin a whole flight and their own lives
@Towert7 5 months ago

Props to who ever designed that door. It survived!!!!!!
@twentyshadesofkay2882 6 months ago

They should've threw him out the plane since he badly needed some air
@ChrisTopher-yi8mj 6 months ago

That person should be banned from all flights as a risk
@nubz8733 6 months ago

There should be a universal no fly list