A long weather delay on a Delta flight out of Atlanta ended with a passenger cracking open a cabin door, People reports. The man, booked on Monday night's Flight 2879 to Chicago's O'Hare Airport, grew agitated after hours on the tarmac and was filmed using the plane's intercom-style phone to demand to be let off, saying, "How long has it been delayed already? Three, four hours, and now you're talking another hour? Get me to the gate, I want off, or I will take myself off." He then handed off the phone and moved to the door, which Delta says he managed to open "partially," though the emergency slide did not deploy.
The crew reported a disturbance and the aircraft, carrying 168 passengers, returned to the gate around 8:30pm, per the FAA. Security removed the man, and maintenance inspected and cleared the door so the plane could depart later that evening. No injuries were reported, NBC 5 reports. Today reports the man was taken into police custody. The airline says the hold on the ground was due to storms in Chicago. In a statement, Delta said safety is its top priority and it has "zero tolerance for unruly behavior," and apologized to passengers for the delay. The FAA, which says airlines have already logged nearly 500 passenger disturbance reports this year, is investigating. (It's been a wild week for Delta, with another passenger refusing to get off her phone and a baby born mid-flight.)
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