{"id":422211,"date":"2011-05-11T14:18:11","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/05\/11\/us-man-tried-to-open-plane-door\/"},"modified":"2011-05-11T14:18:11","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T14:18:11","slug":"us-man-tried-to-open-plane-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/us-man-tried-to-open-plane-door\/","title":{"rendered":"US man &#8216;tried to open plane door&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"56.7623762376\"><span><span>11 May 2011<\/span> <span>Last updated at<\/span> <span>10:18 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A US man has been arrested after trying to open an emergency exit door during a Florida to Boston flight, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Hersey, 43, of Arlington, Massachusetts, pulled the handle on the door, triggering an alarm, officials said. Witnesses described him as drunk.<\/p>\n<p>A flight attendant escorted him to the rear of the plane and an off-duty police officer sat with him for the duration of the Delta flight.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hersey was charged on Tuesday night with interfering with a flight crew.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers told local media Mr Hersey, who was wearing a shirt supporting the Boston Bruins hockey team, was foul-mouthed, intoxicated and unhappy the flight was late.<\/p>\n<p>He tried to open the exit door on the Airbus 320 about half-way between Orlando, in Florida, and Boston, Massachusetts, passengers told the Boston Globe.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Hersey was scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Go here to see the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-us-canada-13364598\" title=\"US man 'tried to open plane door'\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">US man &#8216;tried to open plane door&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 11 May 2011 Last updated at 10:18 ET A US man has been arrested after trying to open an emergency exit door during a Florida to Boston flight, police say. Robert Hersey, 43, of Arlington, Massachusetts, pulled the handle on the door, triggering an alarm, officials said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":398630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-422211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>US man &#039;tried to open plane door&#039; - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/05\/11\/us-man-tried-to-open-plane-door\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"US man &#039;tried to open plane door&#039; - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"11 May 2011 Last updated at 10:18 ET A US man has been arrested after trying to open an emergency exit door during a Florida to Boston flight, police say. 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