Great fear on the track
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Two passengers aboard a Delta flight preparing to take off from New York’s LaGuardia Airport (LGA) opened a plane door and landed on the emergency slide with their dogconfirmed an airline spokesman.
The couple was traveling on flight 462 to Atlanta and when they left the Airbus A321, the take-off was aborted, around 10:55 am, yesterday, according to police sources and an airline spokesman.
Antonio Murdock, 31, told New York and New Jersey Port Authority (PANYNJ) police that his post traumatic stress was unleashed on the plane. He and his partner, Brianna Greco, 23, were arrested after the incident.
Brian Plummer, who was also on Flight 462, said New York Times who saw the couple and their dog changing seats several times as the plane prepared to take off. Then Murdock got up and told a flight attendant that he could not get up because of his post-traumatic stress disorder. “If I sit down, I’ll be scared,” he said, according to Plummer.
Murdock and Greco, both from Florida, were charged with felony criminal mischief, reckless conduct, disorderly conduct and obstruction of government administration. No one was injured in the incident.
The plane returned to the gate and the rest of the passengers were placed on other flights. “Maintenance technicians evaluated the aircraft and it was scheduled to return to service” last night, Delta added in a statement quoted by New York Post.
Delta Flight 462 was delayed for hours after a male passenger forced the cockpit door open while the plane was running. He and his comrades slipped from the plane. https://t.co/n9eakRdj8k
– NYT Metro (@NYTMetro) December 22, 2020