--- title: Man Mixed Up The Plane Door With The Bathroom Door On Flight description: Police say the mixup lead to 'pandemonium' onboard the plane canonical: https://time.com/5406892/go-air-door/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-26T16:02:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:06.097Z og:title: Man Confuses Emergency Exit Door With Bathroom on Flight og:description: Police say the mixup lead to 'pandemonium' onboard the plane og:url: https://time.com/5406892/go-air-door/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8671175169f1397/69893b28e76ad29d9763316f/goairplane.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: INDIA-ECONOMY-TRANSPORT-AIRLINE og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Man Confuses Emergency Exit Door With Bathroom on Flight twitter:description: Police say the mixup lead to 'pandemonium' onboard the plane twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8671175169f1397/69893b28e76ad29d9763316f/goairplane.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Man on Plane Tries to Open Exit Door in Ill-Advised Attempt to Find the Bathroom > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Sajjad HUSSAIN / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images) SAJJAD HUSSAIN—AFP/Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 26, 2018 4:02 PM UTC What may have been an honest mistake lead to pandemonium in the air on a recent flight in [India](http://time.com/5388257/india-aadhaar-biometric-identification/). A [passenger](http://time.com/money/5158363/airline-profit-per-passenger/) on what he said was his first plane ride ever mistook the rear exit of the plane for the door to the toilet, giving his fellow passengers a fright as he tried to open the rear door while the plane was in flight, [_The Independent_ reports.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/plane-passenger-opens-door-toilet-goair-india-flight-delhi-patna-a8554001.html) The man, a banker in his late twenties, was noticed tugging at the exit door on the GoAir flight from Delhi to Patna. When questioned by the other passengers on the plane, he “told them he needed to use the washroom urgently and kept tugging at the exit door,” according to a police spokesperson speaking to _The Independent_. Luckily, the door could not be opened due to the difference in air pressure in and out of the [plane](http://time.com/4880582/flight-delay-naked-passenger/). But his effort was enough to spark “pandemonium” on the flight, according to police. Cabin crew were forced to wrestle the man away from the door and he was restrained. It’s unclear whether his mix-up was explained to him—or whether he was able to use the restroom—but _The Independent_ reports he remained in his seat for the remainder of [the flight](http://time.com/5354042/travel-etiquette-mistakes-fly-experts/) before being handed over to airport security upon arrival. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5406892/go-air-door/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5406892/go-air-door/"},"headline":"Man on Plane Tries to Open Exit Door in Ill-Advised Attempt to Find the Bathroom","datePublished":"2018-09-26T16:02:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:06.097Z","description":"Police say the mixup lead to 'pandemonium' onboard the plane","url":"https://time.com/5406892/go-air-door/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Bizarre"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8671175169f1397/69893b28e76ad29d9763316f/goairplane.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta8671175169f1397/69893b28e76ad29d9763316f/goairplane.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"INDIA-ECONOMY-TRANSPORT-AIRLINE","caption":"Go Air plane passenger","creditText":"SAJJAD HUSSAIN—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5406892/go-air-door/","name":"Man on Plane Tries to Open Exit Door in Ill-Advised Attempt to Find the Bathroom"}}]}] ```