An airline passenger was arrested on a charge of unruly behavior
after trying to open the emergency exit door, which he mistook for a
toilet, police in the Netherlands said. Now, James Gray of Edinburgh,
Scotland, has been ordered to pay a $650 fine and he was banned from
flying on KLM airplanes for 5 years.
Scoop has more:
The incident unfolded as Gray was on a flight from
Edinburgh to Amsterdam. Shortly after the plane landed at Schiphol
Airport, Gray was arrested and held overnight at a detention
center. Gray said that he mistook the emergency door for the toilet as
the airplane was 30,000 feet in the air.
Flight attendants ordered him to stay in his seat, and he was
notified that he was going to be arrested when the plane arrives at the
destination. He tried to explain that it was a simple mistake, but they
rejected his pleas. He was released in the morning after paying the
$650 fine.
When Gray wanted to board a flight back to Edinburgh with KLM, he was
denied access as the five-year ban was effective immediately. Gray and
flew back to Scotland on another airline.
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