The door of an Asiana Airlines jet opened as it was coming in to land in Daegu, South Korea, leaving wind whipping through the plane’s cabin as terrified passengers gripped their armrests, video of the incident shows
An airline official said a man in his 30s who was sitting at the emergency seat seemed to have opened the door when the aircraft was about 700 feet above the ground and about two to three minutes from landing in the city 150 miles south of Seoul. However, company officials told CNN the plane had landed safely. Local police said a man has been arrested. They said he confessed to opening the door, but would not say why he did it.
The aircraft was identified on the Flightradar 24 tracking website as an Airbus 321. The jet was on a flight from Jeju island, off South Korea’s southern coast, to Daegu. Aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas of Airline Ratings described the incident as “very bizarre.” “Technically, it’s not possible to open those doors in flight,” he told CNN. Thomas noted that the landing speed of an A321 is about 150 knots , meaning winds of that speed are passing the aircraft.
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