EgyptAir door opens mid-flight

Dubai: An EgyptAir plane was forced to turn back to Heathrow airport after its door opened mid-flight Wednesday on its way back to Cairo.

A technical fault caused one of the aircraft’s doors to open a few minutes after the plane took off, the Egyptian news daily Al Watan reported.

Once the plane returned, the passngers waited about four hours for technicians to fix the plane.

Authorities later cleared the plane to take off again, however many passengers refused to reboard because they were worried that the technical issue could be repeated.

The passengers called for a probe into the incident and to hold EgyptAir officials for the technical glitch that could have caused a near-fatal disaster.

Flight number 780 left Heathrow’s airport at 9:30 p.m. local time.

-Hams is a freelance journalist based in the UAE