Sunday
26 Aug 2007
Passenger Tries to Open Aircraft Door Mid-Flight
By Annie Jacobsen in category U.S. Homeland Security
A male passenger, traveling from Denver to New York on Frontier Airlines Flight 514, was arrested Saturday morning at La Guardia Airport after trying to open the aircraft exit door during the flight. The man's name has not been released.
As in the case of shoebomber Richard Reid, it was crew members and passengers who thwarted the disaster. FOX News has details:
Passenger Bobby Vigil of Estes Park told KUSA-TV in Denver that the man had been acting strangely. Vigil said he and other passengers helped a flight attendant tie the man to his seat with duct tape.
"The whole rest of the flight, all the way in, he was yelling and trying to bite the tape, and they ended up restraining him with an extra lap belt," said Vigil.