Desperate passengers and staff on board the plane tried to restrain him from leaping out of the plane's cabin door, and possibly into the powerful jet engines. Photo / Facebook
A panicking plane passenger was almost "sucked into a jet engine" after opening a cabin door just before take off.
The panic stricken passenger, American Tommy Gray, of Centralia, Missouri, was on a Frontier Airlines plane to St Louis, Missouri, from Cancun, Mexico, when he became ill.
In a shocking
video, recorded by passenger Kathleen Ingram, the man is seen opening the cabin door in a panic while the powerful jet engines were running.
When the cabin door was opened, an emergency slide was also deployed.
The aircraft has been taken out of service since the viral clip surfaced while an aircraft maintenance team investigates why the slide automatically deployed.
