Australian Survivor star Brooke Jowett was flying on the plane from Bali to Melbourne that saw a woman try to open the emergency door mid-flight.
The reality star took to her Instagram story to recount the scary experience and reveal the wild reason the woman made the risky move.
“Two hours into our flight, flight attendants start running, people start freaking out, and we get told to put our seatbelts on immediately,” Brooke recalled.
“We soon find out we’re heading back to Bali as a passenger decided she no longer wanted to be on the flight and tried forcing open the emergency door mid-air. Fair to say it was a very scary few hours, but we’re back on the ground (in Bali again),” Brooke explained after landing back at Denpasar airport on March 31.
Brooke said the plane had been in the air en route to Melbourne for about an hour before the incident. After the disruption occurred, Jetstar diverted the plan back to Bali.
Why did the woman try to open the plane door mid-flight?
The morning after arriving back in Bali, Brooke took to her Instagram stories again to explain why the woman tried to open the cabin door.
“Turns out the reason behind the lady wanting to open the door is because she wanted to sit in a different row and have a chair that could recline, so she decided to try to open the doors, which apparently triggered something to do with the emergency slide,” she claimed.
“She was very unhappy and decided she wanted to get off the flight.”
Brooke said that a man who was sitting in front of them on the plane was near the toilets when the woman attempted to open the door.
“He pulled her away from her away from the door as she was trying to open it. He was an off-duty police officer, apparently. So he saved the day. Thank God for that. But yeah, don’t know what would have happened otherwise.”
Brooke added that the woman had allegedly been arrested over the incident.
“We just have news that the lady who did it got arrested. I’m so glad she got arrested.”
“It was a big, bloody big panic. It’s very, very scary, but we’re fine,” she added.
What a ride, literally.
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