Why, in the blue blazes, would the flight crew allow the door to be opened with a passenger present who had already disobeyed the FA?!?
Exactly. There should have been some signal for the FO's to know there were unauthorized persons in the vicinity of the doors. Are there cameras for them to use to see what's going on outside their door?..........
First thing that occured to me.
Why anyone is allowed in the galley areas near the cockpit post 911 has always baffled me. I've done it, my family has done it, in the 70s and 80s.
The new rules announced recently by one airline, the use of first class rest rooms by anyone just makes a bad situation worse.
As an aside, what is the point of having rules aboard an aircraft if there's no means of enforcing them?
By definition, murderers don't do rules.
They wouldn't. The story sounds fishy. The first tip-off is the Penthouse Forum-style start to the story: "This is not meant to scare, but it probably will."
I was on a SWA flight last Thursday and the FA clearly WOULD not let the door open until the first five rows were clear and everyone was seated. She also did a great job at boarding time "helping" what looked like a Muslim man find a comfortable seat back about 10 rows. The guy never even knew he had been steered away from the front row. It was a piece of art.