Inflight door opening attempt 8/29/16
Aug 29, 2016, 4:21 pm
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Inflight door opening attempt 8/29/16
Just heard about this on the national news 
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Aug 29, 2016, 4:46 pm
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Aug 29, 2016, 5:17 pm
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Aug 29, 2016, 7:50 pm
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Since they diverted to MSP, that means they were probably only 2 hours into the flight. That's a bit early for the credit card solicitation. So there had to be some other reason he wanted to make a run for it.
Aug 29, 2016, 8:15 pm
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The track on Flight Aware looks like they were almost to the MN/SD border before hooking around to land at MSP.
Aug 29, 2016, 8:45 pm
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I'm know I'm stretching the topic a bit, but since the flight did go JFK-MSP-SEA, I wonder if AS would ever consider adding a mid-west stop on some of their transcons to pick up folks in places that couldn't support a stand alone flight...maybe an extra PHL-SEA flight that makes a quick stop in a place like DSM? CVG? PIT?
Aug 30, 2016, 1:11 am
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Aug 30, 2016, 6:42 am
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Most likely the diversion was based on diruptive behaviour because the attempted door opening onto itself had nothing to do with safety of flight.
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Aug 30, 2016, 9:05 pm
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Does seem like a well reported injury or two might slow down some of these fools. Or at least make for a good viral video.