Passenger Attacks Flight Attendant, Opens Emergency Exit, and Jumps from Moving Plane

A passenger hit a flight attendant, opened an emergency exit, and then jumped onto the ground as the plane was getting ready to take off.

On Friday, an Iberia Airbus A320neo was about to take off from Paris Orly Airport for a flight to Madrid.

Airlive.net was the first to report what happened. A representative for Iberia told Business Insider that the information in the story was true, but they didn’t say anything else.

Airlive.net said that people on board heard a big noise as the plane was about to turn onto the runway.

Emergency vehicles can be seen surrounding the A320neo in a video that the site got that looks like it was taken by another passenger.

Airlive.net said that after two hours, passengers got off the plane and were taken to nearby hotels.

Data from Flightradar24 shows that Flight IB578 left Paris five hours later than planned.

The company that runs Orly Airport, Aéroports de Paris, didn’t reply right away when BI asked for a comment.

An event like this happened on a JetBlue flight that was about to leave Boston in January. The Federal Aviation Administration said that the slide opened when a customer opened an emergency exit while the plane was taxiing.

When his plane just arrived at the gate in Australia in August, a passenger opened an emergency exit and walked along one of the wings.

A Southwest Airlines passenger made a stir in 2023 when he or she jumped out of an emergency exit, ran across the tarmac, and then tried to steal a truck.