Originally Posted by corporate-wage-slave

My guess here is that the 2 unlabelled bags could not be put into the hold, otherwise this breaks rules about baggage reconciliation with the passenger onboard. Therefore the dispatcher got these 2 bags, went to the airbridge, and captain radio'd or shouted his OK for the airbridge to go back into place. Unfortunately the safefy demo was going on and the crew cannot be disturbed from this. You then had a dispatcher at the closed door, wanting to get the bags over or at least identified, captain thought "OK, let's not hang about, I'll do the door", Forgetting that the door was armed or missing the lever (he should have got any GGL to help him, we all know how to do it). Since the airbridge was in place, the door could be opened, and the baggage at least dealt with, but it was game over for that aircraft and captain, at least for the flight. The captain should have waited a couple of minutes, that was the root cause, it's not the right way to do things.