Anxious traveller opens airplane emergency exit door and escapes to wing
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. An anxious Alaska Airlines passenger opened the emergency exit door of the plane and stepped out onto the wing. CCTV footage shows the Boeing 737 Max 8 parked at a gate when the emergency exit door suddenly flips up and open. A woman steps out first with her right foot then her left, walks along the side of the plane to the back end of the wing, and sits down.
While sitting, she waved a couple times though it was unclear to who on the tarmac, and seemed to be carrying a bag or her belongings on her right side. Flight 323 had just touched down at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport when the woman broke from regular traveller conduct and caused staff to respond.
The woman ‘became anxious and opened the emergency exit and climbed onto the wing’, said airport spokesman Perry Cooper. She forced open the door while the flight crew were not looking. Port of Seattle Fire members arrived at the scene shortly after 5pm and ‘helped the woman off the wing and on a ramp to the ground’, he said.
She was later transported to a hospital for evaluation as directed by the Port of Seattle crisis team. It happened on December 22, nearly a year after Alaska Airlines made headlines when a door fell out while while the plane was 16,000 feet in the air. The Boeing 737 Max was found to be missing four key bolts.
