Man accused of trying to stab flight attendant and open plane door

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Federal charges have been filed against a man accused of attacking a flight attendant and trying to open a plane's emergency exit door on a weekend flight to Boston. Francisco Severo Torres, 33, was on board a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles when a flight attendant believed he had tried to tamper with the emergency exit door, according to the U.S. attorney's office for Massachusetts. 

About 45 minutes before landing at Boston Logan International Airport, crew members were alerted that the "starboard side door" had been disarmed, the federal prosecutor's office said. A flight attendant who inspected the door noticed the handle had been moved toward the unlocked position. The attendant, who was not identified, secured the handle and went to notify fellow crew members. Another attendant noted that Torres had been by the door earlier and suspected he might have tampered with it, federal officials said. 

"A flight attendant then confronted Torres about tampering with the door, to which he allegedly responded by asking if there were cameras showing that he had done so," the prosecutor's office said. The captain was notified that Torres might pose a threat to the flight and asked to land as soon as possible. Torres later approached the same door as two flight attendants stood near it, according to the prosecutor's office.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-accused-trying-stab-flight-attendant-open-plane-door-rcna73657

[Myles]

What he has been charged with seems too little for what he did.  

 

Torres has been charged with a count of interference and attempted interference with flight crew members and attendants using a dangerous weapon.

 

"Torres then allegedly thrust towards one of the flight attendants in a stabbing motion with a broken metal spoon, hitting the flight attendant on the neck area three times," the prosecutor's office said.

Passengers tackled Torres and helped the crew restrain him until the plane landed, when he was taken into custody.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

The fact that you can just … open the door in flight amazes and terrifies me. Surely there is a way to keep it locked unless a button is pushed from somewhere else on the plane first? I get it that the door needs to be openable quickly in an emergency, but an unlock button somewhere nearby wouldn’t slow anything down. 

[MGB]

9 hours ago, Sir Wearer of Hats said:

The fact that you can just … open the door in flight amazes and terrifies me. Surely there is a way to keep it locked unless a button is pushed from somewhere else on the plane first? I get it that the door needs to be openable quickly in an emergency, but an unlock button somewhere nearby wouldn’t slow anything down. 

When the cabin is pressurized, they cannot pull the door inward to relieve the pressure. It would be like pulling an inflated tire off a car, it just isn't happening.

[Sir Wearer of Hats]

2 hours ago, MGB said:

When the cabin is pressurized, they cannot pull the door inward to relieve the pressure. It would be like pulling an inflated tire off a car, it just isn't happening.

Ohh thank goodness

[Myles]

I'm just going to add this to this thread.

 

No arrests were made.   That is the issue.  

 

Drama unfolded on board a Southwest Airlines aircraft in Dallas after a man alleged that another passenger bumped into his wife.

In the March 6 incident, video taken by a passenger shows the physical altercation between the two men with other passengers attempting to break up the fight.

"You a p----, you a p----," a man wearing a sports jacket is seen yelling at a heavily tattooed passenger.

The woman who recorded the video told Fox News Digital that the tattooed man "bumped into his wife by accident, and he started mouthing off." She also said that the man in the sports jacket punched the other man "four to five times" before she began recording.

 

"He approached me aggressively with my family." the man with the sports jacket is seen yelling at passengers and a Southwest Airlines flight attendant. "I will sit down in jail for you approaching my family. I will die for my family."

"That's why I beat your a--," he continued.

Witnesses said both men were taken off the plane. The Dallas Police Department said no one was arrested.