The woman was arrested when the plane landed in Australia
A French woman has admitted attempting to open an aeroplane door mid-flight so that she could smoke a cigarette.
Sandrine Helene Sellies, 34, who has a fear of flying, had drunk alcohol and taken sleeping tablets ahead of the flight from Hong Kong to Brisbane.
She was seen on the Cathay Pacific plane walking towards a door with an unlit cigarette and a lighter.
She then began tampering with the emergency exit until she was stopped by a flight attendant.
Defence lawyer Helen Shilton said her client had no memory of what had happened on the flight on Saturday, and that she had a history of sleepwalking.
She pleaded guilty to endangering the safety of an aircraft at Brisbane Magistrates Court and was given a 12-month A$1,000 (£429) good behaviour bond - she will forfeit the money if she commits another offence.
The French tourist was at the start of a three-week holiday in Australia with her husband.
Source: BBC
Nov-22-2005 00:19
CyberneticAngel
MC 62 foot Jesus
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Under a very small rock
hahah OMG
seriously though, I wish more airlines let you smoke
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Nov-22-2005 00:20
Minhaj
Your Moms Box
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Toronto, You ******!
Re: Smoker tried to open plane door
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Originally posted by jp
Defence lawyer Helen Shilton said her client had no memory of what had happened on the flight on Saturday, and that she had a history of sleepwalking.
my lawyer said the same thing after walked into my school with a mac10 and shot a shit load of people i had marked down on my list of people i want to kill
Nov-22-2005 00:22
medinaM5
supreme
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Los Angeles
fuckin hell, dumb bitch is lucky she aint dead...needs to be locked up
Nov-22-2005 00:23
DarkAngel
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Registered: Nov 2002
Location: .
Now THAT's what I call a nicotine addict.
Nov-22-2005 00:27
zarathustra
0x40000000
Registered: Sep 2001
Location: Calgary
I might be wrong, but I don't think that it's possible to open the emergency door while the cabin is pressurized. Still though, she gets a for trying.
Nov-22-2005 00:28
Groundhog Boy
Stupidity Offends Me
Registered: May 2005
Location: New York, NY
See, this is what happens when smokers are forced to go outside all the time. Opening a door to light up just becomes habitual when you're going to have a cigarette. Too bad she was too fucked up already to realize that it was a plane, not a bar.
Nov-22-2005 00:30
Krypton
83.798 g/6.022x10^23
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Texas
its impossible to open the emergency door on a jet liner when airborne. the speed and pressure difference has a very large force holding it shut if it was ever unlocked..
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Nov-22-2005 01:06
LiGHT78
addicted to the hardbeats
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Montreal, Canada
Re: Smoker tried to open plane door
quote:
Originally posted by jp
She pleaded guilty to endangering the safety of an aircraft at Brisbane Magistrates Court and was given a 12-month A$1,000 (£429) good behaviour bond - she will forfeit the money if she commits another offence.
Source: BBC
WTF does that mean??? If she doesn't do anything stupid for a year she makes $1000 for trying to open the door to an airplane in mid flight???
Originally posted by ::TranceVanDyk::
its impossible to open the emergency door on a jet liner when airborne. the speed and pressure difference has a very large force holding it shut if it was ever unlocked..
true that.
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Nov-22-2005 01:52
CyberneticAngel
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Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Under a very small rock
Re: Re: Smoker tried to open plane door
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Originally posted by LiGHT78
WTF does that mean??? If she doesn't do anything stupid for a year she makes $1000 for trying to open the door to an airplane in mid flight???
no no, she paid a $1000 bond and will only get it back if she doesn't fuck up for a year
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Nov-22-2005 01:57
e_trance
Suspended User
Registered: Oct 2005
Location: Montreal, Canada
damn crazy women ! only 1000$ for this, she could kill everyone because of here stupid cigarette
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