Opening plane door proves a costly mistake
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A MAN who opened an emergency exit on a plane “by mistake” has agreed to pay damages of 35,000 yuan (US$5,650).
The China West Airlines passenger said he misunderstood a crew member’s instructions and “mistakenly” opened the door, China Central Television reported yesterday.
The incident happened about 6:30pm on Monday shortly after flight PN6272 from Lhasa landed at Jiangbei International Airport in Chongqing, Chongqing Evening News reported yesterday.
As air crew were preparing for debarkation, the man, whom the paper described only as “middle-aged,” opened the emergency exit over the port wing, the airline said.
Cold air blew into the plane and an inflatable escape slide was automatically deployed.
Police were called and the man was taken away for questioning, the newspaper report said.
After agreeing to compensate the airline he was released with only a reprimand, the CCTV said.
The incident is the latest in a spate of cases involving Chinese passengers behaving badly on aircraft.
On Saturday, two men were given 15-day detentions after opening three emergency exits on a China Eastern Airlines flight that was preparing to take off from an airport in Kunming, capital of Yunnan Province.
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