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According to authorities, on Friday, a man jumped out of a moving plane at the Los Angeles International airport after which he had to be taken to the hospital and was also detained in an attempt to breach the plane’s cockpit.
The passenger attempted to exit the flight shortly after 7:00 p.m. when the United Express flight 5365 operated by Skywest to Salt Lake City was pulling away from a gate.
As reported by the news agency Associated Press, the passenger had initially made an attempt to breach the cockpit but somehow managed to open the service door and jumped down the emergency slide onto the tarmac.
The airport authorities immediately took the passenger into custody on the taxiway while he was treated for the injuries which were although not life-threatening before being shifted to a hospital. As mentioned by the Federal Aviation Administration, even after returning to its gate the Salt Lake City-bound twin-engine Embraer 175 could not take off even after three hours although nobody else aboard the plane was injured.
Around 3000 potential breakouts by unruly passengers have been registered this year so far, as informed by the Federal Aviation Administration earlier this month, with the highest since records began in 1995. Most of the breaches are said to be have been occurred because of the passengers which refuse to comply with the federal facemask provision inside the flight.
To investigate the matter, the federal bureau of investigation was given the responsibility as within two days, it was the second such disruption to flight services at Los Angeles International airport.