Man jumps from plane at D/FW Airport (video at linked address)

WFAA.com ^ | Staff

[Paleo Conservative]

D/FW AIRPORT — A man aboard an American Airlines jet opened a door to the aircraft as it was waiting to taxi to a gate at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport Tuesday afternoon.

The 26-year-old passenger reportedly ran into the galley area at the front of the MD-80 jet and unlatched the door. That triggered the automatic deployment of an inflatable emergency escape chute.

The man slid down to the tarmac and started moving toward Terminal C. The unidentified man was quickly apprehended by airline employees.

The man was being questinoed by the airport's Department of Public Safety. Transportation Security Administration officials, the FBI and other federal agencies were notified.

Regular airport operations were not affected and no one was hurt.

Flight 1343, arriving from Charlotte N.C., proceeded to gate A37 for an arrival three minutes after its scheduled time.

The man used a door normally employed for food deliveries, so passengers were able to use the regular door to exit the aircraft via a jet bridge.

[Paleo Conservative]

Well that's a good way to get on the federal "no fly" list.

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[valkyry1]

Guess he could not wait until the plane was at the gate.

[Jeff Chandler]

[LibFreeOrDie]

Afraid he’d miss his connecting flight?

[Spktyr]

Either 1) he found out what was being served for the inflight meal (shoe leather jokingly called Salisbury steak), 2) he found out the inflight movie was “Gigli” or 3) some women were hogging the bathrooms and he *really* had to go....

[snark]

[dusttoyou]

Have threatened this, to self, many times on outbound DFW while looking at 50 stacked up ahead.

This dude must have had a close connection!!

[F15Eagle]

Was it D.B. Cooper?

[Rome2000]

He was just trying to make a connection.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

When ya gotta go, ya gotta go.

[randomhero97]

Was it D.B. Cooper?

No, it was John Matrix.

[PAR35]

American is known for stopping about 15 feet short of the gate and holding the passengers hostage for 10 or 15 minutes.

[Seaplaner]

Perhaps he was seated next to a crying baby?

[gogogodzilla]

Probably forgot his Starbucks.

[princess leah]

He heard that Obama was going to tax his carry-on and he’d had enough and was switching to Southwest (kind of like the Geico Commercial!)

[WL-law]

‘2) he found out the inflight movie was “Gigli” “

!! I “saw” that movie on a cross-country flight.

I say “saw” because it was on the screen, but I didn’t have headphones on. Watching the acting without words provided a great insight into just how awful were the performances of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. Words can’t do justice to the wretchedness of it.

[Global2010]

Geeze no punch line as in what was so urgent that he had to make an emergency escape and run like hell to ?????.

I hate when they dont finish a story.

Glad he had the chute though cause that jump/fall without would of been rough.

[Dallas59]

Why do people go crazy on airplanes?

[MeekOneGOP]

[Irish Eyes]

Why do people go crazy on airplanes?

Have you done much flying?

;)

[Vision Thing]

Whenever you’re on a flight that arrives ahead of schedule into DFW, the arrival gate is always occupied by the preceding flight, which is still in the boarding process. Whenever it happens, you end up sitting on a plane that’s stuck on the tarmac for what seems an eternity.

[BigCinBigD]

The White zone is for loading and unloading only...

[river rat]

It Atlanta - Delta covers the fact your gate is unavailable by taking the passengers on a “taxi ride” around their huge airport and then the instant there is rain or lightening strikes ANYWHERE with 500 miles of Atlanta the airport employees are pulled inside due to safety procedures, delaying your flight access to any gate until the sky is clear for a 500 mile radius while you sit parked in the “dead zone”.......

The bastards in Atlanta have groomed this tactic to a fine art.....and ENDED my trips to or through Atlanta... What more can one expect from an Airport run by a corrupt city government - which operated the Airport as a cash cow for their bros from the hood....

[Global2010]

That would have done it alright.

[Sarajevo]

Atlanta Airport is as bad as Detroit or Chicago.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Johnny, what can you make out of this?

[Northern Yankee]

Perhaps he was seated next to a crying baby?

Or Helen Thomas.

[OrioleFan]

Achmed Cooper?

[MeekOneGOP]

hahahaa!

I thought about D.B. Cooper as well! :)

[AGreatPer]

Barry Manilow music will do this.

[Joe 6-pack]

[al baby]

Perhaps he was seated next to a crying baby? Or Helen Thomas.

The smell of old denture cream and old lady farts gross

[Yo-Yo]

I can make a hat, or a broach.

[Rebelbase]

There is no video of the actual event, just a news story.

[anymouse]

Matrix would have climbed down the landing gear and dropped into a nonexistent pond conveniently located at the end of the LAX runway, after crawling through the cargo compartment by way of an unlocked access door. ;)

[nw_arizona_granny]

Ping

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“Shatner in commie subversion shocka”

[MediaMole]

It’s a good thing the engines weren’t going full speed. That galley door is in front of the port engine intake.

[MediaMole]

Great, just re-read, it was the other galley door, not the one used for resupply at the back of the aircraft.

[reagan_fanatic]