{"id":418282,"date":"2026-05-01T07:16:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/delta-air-lines-passenger-opens-door-aircraft-stuck-tarmac\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T07:16:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:16:44","slug":"a-lot-of-legal-trouble-delta-air-lines-passenger-opens-door-while-aircraft-is-stuck-on-tarmac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=418282","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Lot Of Legal Trouble\u201d: Delta Air Lines Passenger Opens Door While Aircraft Is Stuck On Tarmac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Severe thunderstorms in <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"4337\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/atlanta\/\"  >Atlanta<\/a><\/span> led to the delay of a Delta Air Lines flight to Chicago on Monday, which subsequently led to a man losing his temper on board. The passenger, <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/passenger-thomas-ryan-charged-trying-open-door-delta-flight-2879-atlanta-chicago-ohare-airport\/19005247\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >identified as Thomas Ryan by ABC7 Chicago<\/a>, took matters into his own hands and opened the emergency exit of the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3541568\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 737-900ER<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As thunderstorms caused delays for Delta Flight 2879, one frustrated passenger&#8217;s actions forced the plane to return to the gate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,565,1647,14871,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-delta-air-lines","category-emergency-exit","category-passenger-incident","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418457,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418282\/revisions\/418457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}