Woman Opens Stuffy Planes Emergency Door For Fresh Air

Story ByJohn FengSub EditorJoseph GolderAgencyAsia Wire Report

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This viral video seen over 18 million times in less than 24 hours shows a plane emergency door having allegedly been opened by a middle-aged female passenger who found it ‘too stuffy’ and wanted some ‘fresh air’.

The unnamed passenger – reportedly a middle-aged woman – was travelling on Xiamen Airlines Flight 8215, which was delayed for an hour on at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport in the capital of Central China’s Hubei Province.

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According to cabin crew on flight MF 8215, the incident happened on 23rd September towards the end of boarding procedures.

Flight attendants had reportedly warned the female passengers and others near her not to touch the lever of the emergency door after she was shown to her seat.

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However, the woman is believed to have felt the cabin was ‘too stuffy’ and popped open the emergency exit to get some ‘fresh air’, reports said.

Flight crew and other passengers bound for the city of Lanzhou, capital of China’s north-western province of Gansu, were then forced to wait in the aircraft as airport police turned up and arrested the woman for the offence.

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Xiamen Airline staff revealed to local media on 24th September that the incident caused a one-hour delay as the emergency door was shut again, and after a second round of safety inspections was presumably carried out.

Wuhan airport police have yet to release the passengers name or age, and it is unclear whether she faces an indefinite travel ban for the stunt.

In December 2014, a male passenger on another Xiamen Airlines flight was arrested for a similar offence.

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