Woman On PIA Flight Accidentally Opens Emergency Exit Door Thinking It's A Toilet!

While on a flight, things are pretty easy to navigate and, of course, you have the cabin crew to always help you when needed.

Despite all this, there are some passengers who manage to pull off the most unimaginably random stunts, one very dangerous one being mistaking a flight's emergency exit for the toilet door.

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Now, this is probably the last door anyone would want to open while on a flight, but somehow, this happened. This time, a woman passengers onboard Pakistan International Airlines pushed open the emergency exit thinking it was the loo. Well, then.

Can you imagine the chaos that might have followed after?

Fortunately, this took place when the plane was on the runway, ready to take off.

¡°The PIA flight, PK 702, from Manchester to Islamabad was delayed by seven hours. The departure was delayed on Friday night when a passenger erroneously opened the emergency exit causing the emergency chute to activate,¡± a PIA spokesperson told the press.

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All the passengers had to be offloaded from the plane, and their luggage was removed too. They were given hotels to stay in, as the flight was further delayed for seven hours.

All because a woman couldn't read the exit sign which is absolutely hard to miss. PIA chief executive Air Marshal Arshad Malik ordered an inquiry into the incident.

In a similar incident that took place last year, a GoAir passenger created panic on a Delhi-Patna flight by trying to open the emergency gate midair while mistaking it for a toilet door. The passengers onboard claimed the man got up from his seat and went directly for the emergency exit. Some panicked passengers held him back before he could open it.