Korean plane door opened in the air, 12 people injured

An airline official said the man, about 30 years old, sitting in the emergency seat appeared to have opened the door when the plane was about 213 meters above the ground and about two to three minutes away from landing at the airport nearly 300 kilometers south of Seoul.

Fortunately, however, the plane landed safely.

The door on the flight was flung open.

Local police said a man was arrested and he admitted opening the door, but did not say why he did so.

South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said in a statement that police and the ministry are investigating an individual for violating aviation laws.

According to Asiana Airlines, there were a total of 200 people on board the plane, including 194 passengers. 12 people suffered minor injuries and nine of them were taken to a hospital in Daegu.

The plane, identified on tracking website Flightradar24 as an Airbus 321, crashed while en route from Jeju Island, off the southern coast of South Korea, to Daegu.

Aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas of Airline Ratings described the incident to CNN as "very strange" given that it was technically impossible to open those doors mid-flight.

Ambulance takes passengers to hospital

Thomas noted that the landing speed of an A321 is around 150 knots (276km/h), meaning winds of similar speeds were blowing across the plane. "It seems implausible that the door could be opened right away and then go against the airflow, which is technically impossible, but somehow it happened."

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said it has dispatched aviation safety inspectors to the scene to check whether there were any irregularities in the aircraft's maintenance.

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