Passenger threatened to open plane door

Published: Oct. 6, 2008 at 9:25 PM BERLIN, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- A British Easyjet crew subdued an irate German passenger who had threatened to open the cabin door at 30,000 feet, police in Berlin said. Flight attendants on the Airbus traveling from Napes, Italy, to Berlin said one of the 145 passengers, a 31-year-old German man, asked to move away from a pair of British passengers after an altercation that involved the man biting one of the Britons, The Daily mail reported Monday. Police said they do not know what started the argument. "The German passenger asked to be seated in a row away from the British and this... [read full story]