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Asiana Airlines: Passenger arrested for opening plane door during South Korea flight (www.bbc.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Steve@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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I've spent the last two weeks waking up at night thinking about a flight I have coming up and then I see this...

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[–] veloxization@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

To calm your nerves: It's impossible to open the doors mid-flight due to the immense pressure difference. Despite this plane being so close to the ground, I'm somewhat impressed this kind of feat was pulled off.

[–] Steve@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

To be fair, it didn't trigger me. But I knew if I was going to fly soon there would be some air related incident in the news.