Woman Opens Plane’s Emergency Exit Thinking It’s the Toilet Door

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6/10/2019Updated: 6/10/2019

An International flight from Manchester, UK, to Islamabad in Pakistan was delayed by seven hours after a passenger mistakenly opened the emergency exit thinking it was the toilet door.

The woman traveler opened the exit door in the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight on June 7 and the plane automatically deployed the emergency slide, reported The Independent.

Venus Upadhayaya

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Venus Upadhayaya reports on India, China, and the Global South. Her traditional area of expertise is in Indian and South Asian geopolitics. Community media, sustainable development, and leadership remain her other areas of interest.

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