'It was scary': Man jumps out of taxiing airplane

kmbc ^ | By Melissa Alonso and Alaa Elassar,

[BenLurkin]

A 30-year-old man jumped out of an airplane as it was taxiing at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport Saturday.

Southwest Flight 4236...

Passenger Chris Ricci, who was seated in the row next to the man, described what happened to sister station KCRA.

"All the passengers we hear this commotion of this flight attendant and person wrestling when they open the door," said Ricci. "The flight attendant is like, 'Oh my God, he jumped out of the plane.'"

The man landed on the tarmac and made his way to the fire station, entered the building and locked himself inside a dormitory room, Keller said.

Authorities responded to the incident, after which the flight "continued to its designated gate," Southwest Airlines said.

[DesertRhino]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH4BwBfkH30

747 pilot escape system.

[BradyLS]

I wonder if the escape system was there from the beginning? Or implemented after Tenirife? Here’s the video I saw of the co-pilot telling his story (4-minutes):

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HuvND-1pwNU

[EC Washington]

The Southwest has been treating their passengers lately, I don’t blame him

[PLMerite]

"Man jumps out of taxiing airplane"

Better a taxiing airplane than an airplaning taxi:

[DesertRhino]

Don’t know. I would guess from the beginning, since it looks really built in and well thought out. But I really don’t know.

[ponygirl]

My father was Pan Am. He knew everyone on the Tenerife crew, knew the first officer on Lockerbie, and was really good friends with the captain of flight 110 whose wife was killed when the PLO stormed the plane at the gate in Rome. She was pass riding and they had just moved her up to first class when the attack happened.

I grew up knowing there was always a chance my dad wouldn't come home. Fortunately, he made it through his whole career with only one minor incident (that he told us about).

[ponygirl]

They showed us those inertia reels in training. The cables, if I recall correctly, looked like flat metal tapes — like something that could slice your hand off. I remember seeing them and thinking, “Yeah, I think I would try to find another way out.” They showed us video of someone using the escape hatch and it would be like jumping off a building. They probably haven’t tested those things with a human subject since that video was made in 1970-something!

[minnesota_bound]

His experience taking off from the Flagstaff airport, Hair Care and Tire Center.....

Ron White Near Miss Plane Crash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH-LmkLFJg0

[Viking2002]

When ya gotta go, ya gotta go.

[Viking2002]

Quick but funny one: about 30 years ago, I took off on my mountain bike and hauled the mail down the main road doing about 35 or so. My front tire started to veer away from the forks at an inopportune moment; I decided a kick with my toe would be the quickest fix to realign it. (I hated to waste a head of steam like that.) Well, toe went into forks and I went from 35 to zero in about five feet. All I remember was seeing was ground-sky-ground-sky for a good ten seconds, and I was a mass of road rash, blood, and stinging pain. I looked to my right and there was a guy standing there - I still remember it - washing his Jeep. He just lowered his hose and asked, "Dude, are you OK?" All I could do was untangle myself and limp home. It took hours to fix that damn bike, and weeks before I got up the nerve to try it again.

You should have seen me on a pair of inline roller blades a few years later. I blew half a week's pay buying the blades, gloves, pads, helmet, the works. I lasted fifteen minutes and sold the whole lot to a pawn shop. In the Yiddish vernacular, I am a klutz.

[ops33]

Aircraft that have a flight deck high off the ground, like the 747 and C-5, have inertia reel escape system. Located next to the pilot’s seat, they open the window, grab the handle of the reel, and jump out the window.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Sometimes you just change your mind. 😏