A Chinese man who opened the emergency exit of an aircraft as it was about to take off on a domestic flight in China - the latest in a string of such gaffes - claimed he had mistaken the door handle for a handrail to steady himself. He pulled the handle to unlock and open the door as the Urumqi Airlines plane was preparing for take-off in China's Xinjiang region on Saturday afternoon. “I thought it was just like the handrail on the bus, which I can hold on to by myself if I find myself sitting unsteadily,” the man was quoted as saying by the news portal. He said it was his first time that he had sat next to an aircraft’s security door and had been shocked to find the door had swung open. It is the latest in a string of incidents involving mainland Chinese passengers opening emergency exits as aircraft prepare to take off. Last month an unidentified man was also detained for 10 days after opening an aircraft's emergency exit as passengers were still boarding at Nanjing Lukou International Airport.

He was quoted as saying, “This door is not important”, when asked by airline staff why he had opened the door. In December, a first-time traveller opened the emergency exit of a Xiamen Air passenger jet to "get some fresh air" just before it was due to take off.used doors for sale in islamabad In Saturday's incident, the man and his wife were on a flight from an airport in Urumqi, the capital city of Xinjiang, travelling to Zhengzhou, in Henan province.able garage door service tucson Crew on flight UQ2505 quickly alerted police, and the man was taken away for questioning.bi fold doors direct uk The flight was delayed for about half an hour.garage door opener parts gta

Airport police said the man had been detained for 10 days for causing a disturbance on an aircraft.Woman opens plane’s emergency exit and jumps out She had extra leg room, a swift exit and a few injuries (Picture: Hampton Friedman) When your flight lands, it always takes forever to file off the plane.kitchen door handles dublin And one woman was in no mood to wait – so she opened the emergency exit door and jumped out.garage door service traverse city Needless to say, her fellow passengers on the United Airlines flight from New Orleans to Houston were shocked as she took her leap of faith.sliding glass door roller assembly replacement The woman survived the huge fall but had to be treated for non-life threatening injuries.

She was not charged with any crime. Passenger Hampton Friedman told CNN: ‘I realised when the door popped open and a woman stepped out of it.’ The aircraft had just landed at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston when the woman decided she had enough. The plane had just landed in Houston (Picture: Getty)Starting Friday, airline passengers will not be allowed to sit next to emergency exits unless they can speak English and are strong enough to open the doors and mobile enough to help others get out of the plane.Those restricted from seats near the exits include the disabled and those in wheelchairs; passengers younger than 15; the elderly, obese or frail; and people traveling with infants.The Federal Aviation Administration said the rule will make emergency evacuations faster and safer, but disabled travelers call it discrimination.''It is just another way of saying that we end up at the back of the evacuation line,'' said James Gashel, director of governmental affairs at the National Federation of the Blind in Baltimore.

''It is fundamentally discriminatory. What it says is you have two classes of passengers in the event of an evacuation: Those with direct access to the exit and those with indirect access.''FAA spokesman Fred Farrar said protecting all passengers outweighs the concerns of the handicapped.''We don't want anybody sitting next to that exit who cannot physically open the door, determine when to open the door, go through the open exit and perhaps assist other passengers in leaving,'' Farrar said.Passengers assigned to those rows must be informed of the regulation and agree that they are capable of understanding instructions, opening the door and helping others evacuate.In some cases, flight attendants may question passengers near the exits or ask them to change seats.''It is nothing discriminatory,'' said Karen Ceremsak, spokeswoman for Eastern Airlines. ''It's simply common sense.''While the number of exits and seating differs by plane model and airline, the rule most often applies to those rows of seats next to the two emergency doors over each wing.

Even before the FAA rule, most major airlines screened who sat in exit rows.That prompted several incidents in which blind or disabled passengers, initially assigned seats in exit rows, were asked to move. Many refused and were arrested, Gashel said.The FAA rule allows airlines to restrict seating if it is based on safety concerns.George Snyder, board member of the Paralyzed Veterans of America in Broward, said disabled passengers should be near the door to be the first off the plane during an evacuation.''If there's an emergency, I'm going to be trying to get out of that door just like everybody else,'' said Snyder, who uses a wheelchair. ''What they are saying is handicapped people are going to clog the door and slow everybody else down.''During hearings, the FAA contended that the exit doors are ''often heavy and clumsy to manipulate'' and ''not every passenger can open them quickly.''Marc Maurer, president of the National Federation of the Blind, disagreed.''Operating a door is no big deal,'' Maurer said.