Patna: Man tries to open plane’s door, thinks it’s way to the loo

PATNA: A GoAir passenger created panic on a Delhi-Patna flight by trying to open the emergency gate midair while mistaking it for lavatory door. The incident occurred on Saturday when the G8-149 flight carrying 150 passenger was heading to Patna airport.
The passenger, in his late 20s, was handed over to the Patna airport police station by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) personnel soon after the flight landed around 7.35pm.Sources said the passenger works with a leading private bank at Ajmer in Rajasthan and took the flight from New Delhi for Patna.
The passengers on board claimed the man got up from his seat and headed directly towards the emergency gate. When he tried to open the gate, several passengers started screaming and shouting and some of them were quick enough to get hold of him. A few of them got injured as he wrestled with them to open the gate. A GoAir executive preferring anonymity confirmed the incident.
According to CISF personnel, the man had successfully unlocked the rear gate, but due to cabin pressure the door could not open. The co-passengers immediately stopped him and locked the gate before alerting the crew members.
During interrogation, the man said he had mistakenly tried to open the emergency gate. Airport police station SHO Md Sanowar Khan said the man was flying for the first time and claimed he had no clue that it was an emergency gate. “There was no ulterior motive behind his act,” he said.
The man, whose family resides in the Kankarbagh area, was released from the police station after he signed a bond.
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