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Woman jailed for trying to open plane door mid-flight

2020-02-13 6 Dailymotion

CHELMSFORD, UNITED KINGDOM — A lady who tried to open a plane door mid-flight is set to spend the next two years in the slammer.<br /><br />The BBC reports that last June 22, Chloe Haines had been drunk as a skunk on both alcohol and medication while travelling with her wheelchair-bound nan aboard a Jet2 flight to Dalaman, Turkey.<br /><br />Prosecutors say she lunged at a door handle on the emergency exit door, bellowing "I want to die!" and "I'm going to kill you all!" as cabin crew and passengers tried to restrain her. <br /><br />She was kicking and punching, and even scratched up a cabin crew member named Charley Coombe.<br /><br />Haines' antics sparked a hijack alert, which then prompted two Royal Air Force fighter jets to scramble up there and intercept the plane, guiding it back to Stansted for an emergency landing.<br /><br />She later claimed she had blacked out and didn't really remember anything after downing her unholy cocktail.<br /><br />Haines pleaded guilty to two charges: endangering the safety of a passenger plane and assault by beating.<br /><br />Jet2 has also banned her for life after her little air rage incident cost them £86,000.

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