Varanasi:
Things turned spooky aboard an IndiGo flight on Saturday when a passenger tried to open the emergency exit door minutes before landing, later claiming he was “possessed by a ghost”.
IndiGo flight 6E-185 from Bengaluru to Varanasi took off from Bengaluru around 8:15 pm, and among the passengers was a man named Mohammad Adnan, a resident of Mau district in Uttar Pradesh. Officials said just 15 minutes into the journey, Adnan attempted to tamper with the emergency door. The cabin crew detected the attempt, were told it was a mistake and warned the passenger not to repeat the action.
Adnan behaved normally for the rest of the flight until around 10.20 pm, just moments before the aircraft was about to touch down at Varanasi’s Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport. With the plane 500 feet in the air, Adnan tried to open the emergency exit door once again. Officials said that upon being alerted by the crew, the pilot demonstrated quick thinking and aborted that landing attempt.
A go-around was conducted and the plane landed at 10.35 pm.
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