Nope, nothing to see here, keep moving.
They should have just slowed airspeed, dropped altitude, had all other passengers buckle and let him open the door.
It would have slid closed again after he exited the vehicle and they could have made up any lost time pretty quickly.
He does have "Wayne" in his middle name, so he's automatically certifiable.
Whew! Good thing they ruled out ties to terrorism before an investigation got under way, or else this could have gotten ugly.
Good luck trying to open a pressurized aircraft’s door at altitude.
Is that middle name D'Wayne?
home grown moose with a “pseudo hijacking”?
B.J. Clintoon blames TEA parties in 5....4.....3....
Can the doors of an airplane really be opened while the plane is in the air? I would hope that they were locked and it would at least take an act of the pilot to unlock them.
I’d hate to think any idiot could get up and jokingly pull the handle and open the doors.
Probably just a misguided fan of The White Stripes.
Or he might have been talking to his imaginary friend moohummed in the bear suit.
I have a theory about some of these nutcases that do crazy things on aircraft. I believe that it may be related to the decreased pressure and low oxygen content of the passenger cabin air. In her book “Flying Blind, Flying Safe” Mary Schiavo mentioned the fact that the amount of fresh air input into the aircraft is controlled either by the pilot of the airline owner, and it has an effect on fuel efficiency. She also said that some airlines deliberately kept the amount of fresh air low. I have absolutely no evidence that insufficient oxygen would cause the nutty behavior.
Managed to break a zip tie and a leather belt? Perhaps excessive use of PCP.
“Crew members and passengers on Delta flight 2148 to Tampa subdued Stanley Dwayne Sheffield”
If ol D-wayne ain’t in the ER, you are not doing it right.....
Just get down below 10K feet, reduce speed and help him out the door at that time...
Button back up and proceed to your original destination...
No muss no fuss...
Oddly enough, he shares a first name with our Dear Leader’s mother.
http://avherald.com/h?article=42a865f1&opt=0
“Incident: Delta Airlines A320 near Albuquerque on Apr 23rd 2010, unruly passenger”
By Simon Hradecky, created Friday, Apr 23rd 2010 19:52Z, last updated Friday, Apr 23rd 2010 19:52Z
SNIPPET: “A Delta Airlines Airbus A320-200, registration N319US performing flight DL-2148 (dep Apr 22nd) from Los Angeles,CA to Tampa,FL (USA), was enroute at FL350 about 120nm south of Albuquerque,NM when the crew decided to divert to Albuquerque because of an unruly passenger on board.”
SNIPPET: “Testimony provided to the court said, that the male passenger (46) started to behave strange about 1.5 hour into the flight after visiting a bathroom and causing some damage in there. When he returned, he began to yell, grabbed a bottle from a trolley and sprayed fellow passengers. Subsequently he attempted to open the front airplane door and voiced threats, that the airplane needed to land immediately or he would blow it up. Fellow passengers took action and restrained the unruly, who fought back injuring himself.”