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A French woman who is terrified of flying admitted in an Australian court Monday that she drunkenly tried to open an airplane door mid-flight to smoke a cigarette.

Sadrine Sellies, 34, was placed on a good behaviour bond after pleading guilty in Brisbane Magistrates Court to endangering the safety of an aircraft. Sellies was travelling on a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong to the east coast city of Brisbane on Saturday when the incident occurred at the start of a three-week Australian vacation with her husband, the court heard.

She walked toward one of the aircraft's emergency exits with an unlit cigarette and a lighter in her hand and began tampering with the door, prosecutors said. But a flight attendant intervened and took Sellies back to her seat.

Sellies was arrested and charged by police on arrival at Brisbane airport.

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Originally posted by Papal Bull:
Would yelling "OH SNAP!" be inappropriate?

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A French woman who is terrified of flying

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How frigging drunk do you have to be to think opening an airplane emergency door in mid-flight is OK?

Yes. It was the last car on the train. That was the back door. If it hadn't been locked, skdadl would now be a wee meat pie on the railway. A haggis, I guess. I still have flashbacks.

[ 23 November 2005: Message edited by: skdadl ]

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Originally posted by Melsky:
Is it possible for a passenger to actually open one of those doors in flight? I would think the air pressure would be too much.

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Originally posted by Melsky:
Is it possible for a passenger to actually open one of those doors in flight?

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edited to add: for the rest of the short trip o Chevery, the helicopter pilot flew low to minimize the buffeting effect. There was never any danger.

[ 23 November 2005: Message edited by: Boom Boom ]

Ativan mixed with alcohol is the only way I can fly in the big planes. (inexplicably I love flying in little planes)

One day a big plane I was in had to make an emergency landing (actually based on my alerting the flight attendant's to smoke in the cabin - though drunk and stoned I am still an excellent backseat driver while flying). Once we had all deplaned and we were back in the airport, I stood on a table and organized all of the passengers to invade the customer service desk as I had learned they were giving out meal and hotel chits only to the passengers that complained.

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Originally posted by RealityBites:

I think the air pressure is on this inside of the plane, trying to get out, so unless there's some kind of safety device preventing it, opening the door would be no problem.

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Originally posted by Papal Bull:
Would yelling "OH SNAP!" be inappropriate?

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I think I'll go with pwned.