Passenger opens Asiana Airlines aircraft door during flight

A passenger opened an aircraft door during a flight shortly before the aircraft landed safely in the city of Daegu. The Airbus A321 plane landed at Daegu airport at around 12:40pm after departing from Jeju island an hour earlier. No one was hurt in the incident but nine people were transferred to a nearby hospital due to breathing difficulties. Eight of those taken to hospital were schoolchildren from Jeju. The plane was about three minutes away from landing when a male passenger sitting next to an emergency door opened a cover and pulled a lever so the door opened about 200 metres above the ground. Read the best of our journalism: Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: Find us on Facebook: Find us on Twitter: Find us on Instagram: