Passengers on a flight from London to Cuba got an in-the-air scare Wednesday night after an allegedly drunk passenger tried to open the plane’s door — at 50,000 feet, London’s Daily Mail newspaper reported.
The First Choice Boeing 767-300, with more than 250 passengers on board, was forced to divert to Bermuda after the passenger, who one witness described to the paper as “clearly drunk,” lunged for the door while other passengers and crewmembers tried to calm him down.
After the jet landed in Bermuda, police boarded the plane and took the man, who was not identified, into custody, the Mail reported.
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The altitude can’t be correct. Cruising altitude is 35,000 feet, and the aircraft can’t fly at 50,000 feet.
So if somebody gets drunk and tries to open the door, everybody gets to go to Bermuda? I’m going to noodle with this…
#2 what’s the matter with you.they probably made an emergency stop to get the unruly passenger off the plane.it would’nt surprise me if they did a thorough check of the luggage areas etc, also. getting that nut case into bermuda probably saved his skin. i think the authorities in cuba , would have thrown him into jail for fifty years before his trial came up.