Summary
Passengers on an American Airlines flight from Milwaukee to Dallas-Fort Worth restrained a Canadian man with duct tape after he allegedly attempted to open a cabin door mid-flight, claiming he was the “captain” and needed to exit.
The man became aggressive, injuring a flight attendant as he rushed toward the door.
Several passengers, including Doug McCright and Charlie Boris, subdued him, using duct tape to secure his hands and ankles.
Authorities detained the man upon landing, and the incident remains under investigation.
In most airplanes, it’s impossible to open the doors while the plane is in the air due to air pressure keeping them in place.
That doesn’t give anyone a pass to try and open it.
No, but it does mean that calling it attempted murder is a bit strong. They were trying to do something that’s physically impossible for them to do. It’d be like calling it attempted murder if I went up to someone and tried to use my psychic powers to explode their heart.
It’s an attempt to harm, and you will be prosecuted for it.
A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging an alleged unruly passenger onboard an American Airlines flight after engaging in disruptive and life-threatening behavior, including attempting to open the aircraft exterior doors mid-flight.
I am specifically addressing the comment:
It is not attempted murder. The case you link to backs me up:
Why no attempted murder charge, if it’s attempted murder?
Ok well, im not going to argue over nonsense with you.
Because you don’t have an argument.
Well that’s true, I’m not arguing anything. I don’t know why you think I am.
Maybe try to reason about why an insane person might do that instead of assuming that everybody is evil?
Feel free to reason it out with someone on your next flight as they do everything described in the article. Have fun.
That’s not how plane doors work.
Yes it is. Unless they’re under like 5,000 feet there’s hundreds of pounds of pressure holding the door closed.
Just looked it up, it’s over 20,000 lbs of force required to open the door when pressurized.
Gilgamesh could easily open that
The handle will rip off the door before it gets anywhere close to opening.
YOU DOUBT THE MIGHT OF GILGAMESH???
It’s why plane doors open inwards before they open outwards. The air pressure means the door cannot possibly open inwards when at altitude.
This is very calming to hear & I feel like it needs to be mentioned lots more when we hear about these incidents! no sarcasm, it’s honestly good to think it’s not so easy