German tourist escorted off plane by police after opening emergency exit door ‘for fun’

SOME people’s idea of having a good time is to go out with friends. But this passenger thought it would be “fun” to open the plane’s door.

Passenger opens aircraft door for ‘fun’

A GERMAN tourist has been escorted off a plane by police after opening an emergency exit door shortly after the plane had landed.

The incident occurred on board a Jet Airways plane at Mumbai’s international airport. The Boeing 737 had just landed after a near three-hour flight from Abu Dhabi on Sunday.

The man, identified by local media as Steve Titschler, told flight attendants he opened the door ‘just for fun’, authorities claimed.

The man could now face criminal charges after he was handed over to police at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, mid-day reported.

Titschler was taken to a police station and was barred from boarding a connecting Jet Airways flight to Delhi.

The passenger was escorted off the plane and barred from boarding a connecting flight.

In a separate incident the same day, a Jet Airways passenger was accused of smoking a cigarette in the lavatory on a flight from Singapore to Mumbai.

The man, identified as Ravi Dhankar, was allegedly intoxicated and was taken into custody when the plane landed in Mumbai.

After the flight landed at Mumbai airport, the airline’s security team took Dhankar to a police station.

A Jet Airways spokesperson said: “A guest travelling on Jet Airways flight 9W 09 from Singapore to Mumbai on Sunday was found smoking in the toilet by cabin crew”.

“He was immediately warned and his cigarette packet and lighter were confiscated. On landing in Mumbai, the guest was handed over to the security agencies. Jet Airways accords highest priority to safety of its guests and all our crew members are trained to handle such situations,” the spokesperson told mid-day.