Police said the incident delayed more than a dozen flights
Bangkok:
Thai police said on Friday they had charged a Canadian who tried to open the door of a plane awaiting takeoff, claiming someone was trying to kill him.
The 40-year-old man tried to open an emergency exit on a Thai Airways flight from the northern town of Chiang Mai to Bangkok on Wednesday.
Police said the incident delayed more than a dozen flights.
“He was charged with two counts of causing harm to other people on the plane and failing to comply,” Nattawut Noisorn, deputy chief of investigations at Phu Ping Ratchaniwet police station, told AFP Instructions from aircraft personnel.”
“He told us he opened the door because someone on the plane was trying to kill him. He was very panicked.”
Police are investigating whether he had used any substances or suffered from any mental illness before boarding the flight.
Watcharapon Pethsurp on the Plane describes the dramatic incident.
“I was sitting at the back of the plane and heard strong winds and shouting from the front. It was chaos,” he told AFP.
“The man was shouting that a man dressed in black was trying to kill him.”
After the incident, Thai Airways issued a statement saying that the flight took off more than three hours later than scheduled.
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