Authorities at Canada‘s busiest airport are investigating how a passenger was able to open the door of a jumbo jet and fall 20 feet onto the tarmac shortly before it was set to take off.
The Air Canada Boeing 777 was scheduled to depart from Toronto Pearson International Airport on a 13-hour flight to Dubai when the man reportedly opened the cabin door shortly after boarding, causing a six-hour delay.
Images shared on social media showed emergency vehicles, including an ambulance, crowding around the nose of the aircraft as it sits on the apron of the terminal. A passenger tunnel is still attached to the left side of the fuselage.
Another picture shows a man sitting on the ground as airport workers in high-visibility vests surround him, one appearing to tell him to remain still.
Canadian media reported that the passenger pulled the door open himself and fell; Air Canada said ‘all of our approved boarding and cabin operating procedures were followed’ prior to the man falling…
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