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2 Women Attack Airline Staff & Tried To Open Plane Doors

dailymail.co.uk — Two drunken British women who attacked airline staff with a vodka bottle and tried to open the emergency exit at 30,000 feet forced a pilot to divert and make an unscheduled landing.

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  • inactive, on 07/26/2008, -3/+184You need to be drunk to think you can open a 20 tons pressured door.
  • Wildthing, on 07/27/2008, -1/+163I think a lot of people don't know that airplane doors open INWARD, which in a pressurized cabin is nearly impossible (if not impossible), so those doors can only be opened at sea level.

    Everything you see in the movies when they pop open the door of a flying airplane is fake. Except when the Governator does it. That's real.
  • WordsnCollision, on 07/26/2008, -12/+145What happened to not allowing liquids on airplanes? Or women, for that matter.
  • smpx, on 07/26/2008, -5/+118I hate people.
  • flavioribeiro, on 07/27/2008, -4/+105"Yesterday a witness told how passengers screamed in fear as crew grappled with the drunken women"
    "It was a nightmare – we all thought we had had our chips."
    "Runways were emptied and other planes forced to stack in the skies so the Boeing 737-900 had a clear landing run."
    "A spokesman at Frankfurt Airport said: ‘This was a most serious situation. If that door had been opened at 30,000ft probably everyone on board would have died.’"

    I'm amazed by the overreaction. Airliner doors can't open accidentally at 30000 feet, and the airport spokesman should've known this. Drunken idiots try to open airplane doors too often for someone in the business to be ignorant of why it can't be done at altitude.

    Then there's the unnecessary measure of declaring an emergency and emptying the runways. Just handcuff the women, explain in the intercom why everyone's safe and proceed to the final destination. Drunk bitches are not worth any inconvenience.
  • cdigioia, on 07/27/2008, -2/+99You know, we could just be reading the BBC version instead of the ***** that is the Daily Mail. And as a bonus, then you don't have to second-guess if the details are completely fabricated or not.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7527058.stm
  • CybrStuff, on 07/27/2008, -7/+92*They're

    Is it really that bloody hard?
  • halogenik, on 07/27/2008, -1/+76"Two drunken British women who attacked airline staff with a vodka bottle"

    I hope they don't mean those tiny little airplane sized bottles, because that would hilarious.
  • Tomboys, on 07/26/2008, -23/+93Their due for one bad hangover.
  • inactive, on 07/27/2008, -0/+61His British what? Don't leave me hangin!
  • Ajajadude, on 07/27/2008, -1/+62I think the Governator just has to look at the door and it opens by itself.
  • inactive, on 07/27/2008, -0/+55I know physics dictates that.
    But if someone is doing that on MY flight I'll still take measure to stop them.
  • morgan26, on 07/26/2008, -2/+48Im pretty sure it would take more than 2 drunk broads to open that door at 30000 ft
  • Tanktunker, on 07/27/2008, -0/+43Why not?
    Is sitting down and falling asleep too challenging for drunk people?
  • inactive, on 07/26/2008, -1/+44I wonder if two drunk women with vodka bottle in hand - while storming cockpit doors - qualifies as an alert watch now.
  • passedoutghost, on 07/27/2008, -1/+40HELL NO! I LIKE GETTING PISS DRUNK ON LONG FLIGHTS BECAUSE IT MAKES TIME FLY BY!

    Why am I shouting?
  • CatherineSouth, on 07/27/2008, -1/+37Sounds like Patsy and Eddie from Absolutely Fabulous are at it again...
  • artfiend77, on 07/27/2008, -0/+33Apparently it is.
  • ThatsNotPudding, on 07/26/2008, -29/+61Here's a few novel ideas: STOP SELLING BOOZE ON THE ***** PLANES and IF YOU'RE TOO DRUNK TO DRIVE, YOU'RE NOT GETTING ON THE ***** PLANE.
  • werries, on 07/27/2008, -1/+31Ever you ever been on a plane? After security checkpoints, you can buy drinks. And they often sell large quantities of liquor.
  • inactive, on 07/27/2008, -1/+30Me too, *****.
  • inactive, on 07/27/2008, -1/+29I don't know whether to digg this or bury it out of shame. Everything wrong with Britain today is in this story, Drinking, Violence and Selfish behaviour. Keep them locked up in Frankfurt please, we don't wan them back.
  • byah, on 07/27/2008, -1/+28their's no need to panic
  • colonelbuckshot, on 07/26/2008, -1/+28It's not uncommon to find drunk, low class British ***** on return flights from Kos, Faliraki, Ayia Napa etc. But I've never heard of anything like this.
  • flavioribeiro, on 07/27/2008, -1/+27In most countries there's no rule regarding liquids on airplanes.
  • inactive, on 07/27/2008, -1/+26British Chavs. What do you expect?
  • brokenworlds, on 07/27/2008, -0/+25"All destinations are final! That's what it means, destiny - final . If you haven't gotten where you're going, you aren't there yet!"
  • ISurfTooMuch, on 07/27/2008, -2/+28I really don't understand people sometimes. I've been drunk, sometimes really drunk, occasionally falling-down drunk back in my college days, but I've never even considered trying something this stupid. Setting aside the fact that they wouldn't have been able to open the door--the women obviously thought they could--how in the hell did they think that this was in any way a good thing to do? It doesn't take a genius to realize that if you create an opening in a pressurized airplane in flight, and if you are standing in front of said hole, YOU WILL DIE. I mean, even if you have no idea how this stuff works, you've doubtless seen movies and TV shows where this happens, and so you know that, when the plane's skin is breached, things fly out of the hole at high velocity, especially things near the hole. It ain't rocket science folks. Well, apparently it was for these morons.
  • ChromaVita, on 07/27/2008, -0/+23The level of alcohol I'd need to consume to even consider something this dumb is a lot more than it would take to kill me...
  • lucy22, on 07/26/2008, -12/+34People are becoming so unruly. This is so scary.
  • greanbean, on 07/27/2008, -3/+24"we all thought we had had our chips" lol
  • h4mx0r, on 07/27/2008, -2/+22The problem with that analogy is that these people are passengers, not drivers. Your example would only work if it was the PILOT that got drunk.
  • Sogui, on 07/27/2008, -1/+201) How often DO drunken idiots try to open airplane doors?

    2) I'd hate the inconvenience but I'd rather have em cuffed by armed police in Germany and let them find their own ***** way home than let them have the convenience of remaining on the plane.
  • jengerer, on 07/26/2008, -1/+20Yeah, the judge hitting his gavel will give them one huge head-ache.
  • Risingashes, on 07/27/2008, -0/+18I hate babies.
  • planetmac, on 07/27/2008, -1/+19probably chavs or members of the under class. They are certainly not ladies.
  • KingGorilla, on 07/27/2008, -1/+19Me too let's *****
  • RoccoMcTaco, on 07/27/2008, -1/+19I love drunk babies.
  • inactive, on 07/27/2008, -2/+20I was on a flight once with a drunken person next to me who kept going "SHH" to a crying baby. He kept on drinking and finally starting go "shut that BABY UP" louder and louder...at this point people started telling him to calm down and finally the flight attendant told him if he didn't shut up, they would have to land the plane.

    I hate violent drunks
  • jasgeo, on 07/27/2008, -3/+20So many British women have absollutley no class, and its amplified when they drink. Drinking like tramps is so engrained into the culture and accepted here, when are they going to learn?
  • dhVyse, on 07/27/2008, -0/+17Becoming? Pfft.
  • inactive, on 07/27/2008, -5/+22British whores, like usual. Those alcoholic tramps never cease to amaze me.
  • nick9000, on 07/27/2008, -3/+20Sometimes I'm ashamed to be British....
  • 2Six119, on 09/10/2009, -0/+16"YOU CALL THESE PEANUTS?! HOLD ME BACK JENNY!, WHERES MY CIGARETTE!?"
  • 120decibel, on 07/27/2008, -0/+16To bad... no snakes...
  • Simus, on 07/27/2008, -2/+18Girls Gone Wild has crossed the line.
  • DanBoodro, on 07/27/2008, -0/+16They said they got it at the duty free, which is like a discount store for everything when crossing countries.
  • Phyrex, on 07/27/2008, -1/+16Airline staff 1:0 Darwin
  • StuartGibson, on 06/14/2009, -3/+18Technically you could argue that is gramatically correct if you take the noun form of due - a due being something that is owed. Though I don't know if that terminology is used stateside.

    In essence you could say that "[being arrested was] their due for one bad hangover". Of course it doesn't make a lot of sense because they were arrested for being drunk, not the hangover, but if they had acted that way because of the hangover then it would make sense.

    I have no doubt that is was just poor grammar on the part of the OP though.
  • MaynardJK, on 07/27/2008, -2/+17That would hilarious indeed.
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