Passenger on plane claims to have mistook the exit door for the lavatory door

[davidn3600]

A plane passenger was arrested after he mistook the aircraft’s exit for a toilet door - and tried to open it at 30,000 feet.

James Gray was on board a KLM flight from Edinburgh to Amsterdam when he made the terrifying blunder, according to reports.

On touching down at Schiphol Airport, he was whisked away to a detention centre.

He spent the night in custody, before being fined €600 (about £440).

Gray - who claims it was a “simple mistake” and a “misunderstanding” - was also slapped with a 5-year ban for flying with the airline.

But he claims he didn’t know about the ban until he tried to fly back home - and was prevented from boarding the aircraft.

http://news.yahoo.com/this-passenger-mistook-a-plane-exit-for-a-toilet-131138806.html

How the hell do you make that mistake?

[Warpy]

1. Xanax and alcohol?

Pretty potent mix that a lot of people who are nervous about flying try. It's either chemicals or raging stupidity.

[DJ13]

3. Wheeeeeee............!

[a la izquierda]

6. That combo puts people to sleep...

It doesn't make them open the wrong door.

[Warpy]

24. It does if they wake up midflight and have to pee out the alcohol

It also makes a few people hazy and belligerent.

Be clean living, people, one drug at a time.

[Warren DeMontague]

25. Otherwise known as the "Peter Buck Special"

just kiddin', Peter. We love you.

[napi21]

2. How in the world is that even possible?

Even a falling down drunk wouldn't make THAT mistake!

[get the red out]

4. Drunk on a plane

Not always the best idea.

[mnhtnbb]

5. It doesn't say how old he is...there could be a dementia related issue here.

[oberliner]

10. He looks pretty young in the photos

[snooper2]

15. So when you buy the curtains you get the shirt free or is it the other way around?

[oberliner]

17. Funny

Didn't catch that initially - not sure how I missed it!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

20. He saw it in the window and couldn't resist.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Must Not Have Flown Much

The doors don't look anything alike. The exit door is WAY bigger and has a window that faces the outside of the plane!

[LiberalElite]

8. and the exit door is on the side

not at the rear.

[Orrex]

9. That's just plane stupid.

[Dr. Strange]

11. Oh knock it off...

I'm getting tired of your altitude.

[KG]

19. well, seems he landed on feet after all

[KamaAina]

23. He was just winging it.

[lonestarnot]

12. Must have been snakes on the motherfucking plane!

[Omaha Steve]

13. Needs a sign on the exit door and a kids safety latch?

You don't want to slow down an exit in an emergency.

[Travis_0004]

14. Maybe he wanted to commit suicide

I understand why they would arrest him, but its honestly not that dangerous. Doors on planes typically open inwards (even the main door usually opens inwards even though it then goes outside the plane)

Cabin air pressure will not allow you to pull that door in. There is just too much difference in pressure.

[Javaman]

16. me thinks that he had several sheets to the wind. nt

[dembotoz]

18. maybe he ate at taco bell and his stomach tried to make an EMERGENCY EXIT

and he took the sign to literal

[Logical]

21. Love the DU food snobs! Nt

[oswaldactedalone]

22. He certainly wasn't making friends

in high places.

[Warren DeMontague]

26. I could be mistaken, but I think it's impossible to open those doors mid-air anyway.

The air pressure inside the plane combined with the doors opening inward means you can't do it, no matter how hard you try. The inside pressure keeps the door closed.

So maybe it freaked people out, but I don't think anyone was in actual danger.

[Turbineguy]

27. It must have been the little

window that created the confusion.