I guess it's nice to see someone banned from an airline in 2020 for something other than not wearing a mask? Video footage is going viral of what happened on an August 31 flight from Antalya to Kyiv. When Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) flight 6212 landed at Boryspil International Airport, one passenger was apparently quite…
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No, I refuse to believe in 2020 that "those who travel less frequently might not know better." I have a hard time believing this was her first time flying based on the description, and there is just no way that she didn't know this is "frowned upon", to put it mildly. This is a lack of common sense and I feel badly for her children.
@Peter - For this particular woman, it might be the case that she knew it's not Okay but just acted like an A-hole. But even in 2020, the majority of the world's population has never taken a flight in their life.
IIRC, the flight attendants need to arm all doors, and that would include the emergency exits. It sort of looks like the plane was still at the gate, so it makes sense that they weren't armed for the slides yet.
@polarbear/TravelinWilly
I'm pretty sure that's a 737. The 737 doesn't have overwing exit slides. During an evacuation, the flaps are supposed to be lowered at which point the back of the wing is low enough to the ground to simply slide down the wing.
Is there anything special that must be done to securely close the exit other than simply pulling it back in place?
Well if the cheap airline would run the air-conditioning people wouldn't do such stupidity. Especially given the current health situation.
"The passenger was flying on a charter vacation...". Yeah, she's just an a**hole who thought she could do what she pleased. Those doors say emergency on them. If you've never flown or don't know the rules, you would see that and stop. Feeling hot is not an emergency and a sober, non-entitled person would know that.
Considering that I still see people regularly getting held up at screening for having 8 gallons of liquid in their carry-ons after 3-1-1 has been preached for over a decade.... This really doesn't surprise me much....
Good thing this wasn't an Airbus A320. The overwing escape slide would have blown.
No harm done,gave a lot of people some light relief from all the stress of life today in the world,no one hurt,threatened,or otherwise traumatised,give her 5 minutes on the naughty step and move on.Please
This was out of the norm for sure, but the plane was stopped at the destination. People acting like she did something dangerous or caused anyone any kind of harm is crazy. I have had to sit on a runway for hours and it was so hot in there that I considered opening a door but we were waiting to take off so a very different story.
@Wayne Harris Yes, the common sense of the people.
I hope that because of this isolated incident they will not make the airline or airplane companies have to put locks and chains or a system that delays or complicates the prompt opening in an emergency.
I don't see the big deal, no harm no foul. Can think of plenty of times I've had to sit on the tarmac for multiple hours with no A/C while the crew works to "find a replacement part" and "install it". Would have loved to take a nice jaunt on the wing.