Police in South Korea have arrested a teenager who allegedly tried to open the door of a Jeju Air plane mid-flight on Monday, the second such incident in a month. The 19-year-old tried to do so on a Jeju Air flight from Cebu in the Philippines to Incheon, a South Korean...
Flight crew together with some passengers immediately subdued the teen.
The Korea JoongAng Daily reported that the teen is unemployed and had lived in Cebu for a month. He allegedly tried to “attack” the flight crew with a pen, according to the news site.The youth reportedly asked the police the number of life vests onboard and “if all of the flight crew would have been fired if he opened the emergency door”, according to The Korea JoongAng Daily.
A passenger who posted an account of the incident claimed the youth had threatened to “open the door and get everybody killed.” A Jeju Air official told Yonhap that there was no damage or casualties thanks to the prompt action by the crew. The incident came after an episode in May where a passenger opened an Asiana Airlines plane door minutes before it landed in the southern city of Daegu in South Korea, causing panic on board.
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