--- description: A passenger was arrested on a Lufthansa flight to Belgrade Sunday after getting up mid-flight and tampering with the exit door title: Lufthansa Passenger Arrested For Tampering With Exit Door image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Companies](/tag/companies/) ## Companies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Lufthansa Passenger Arrested For Tampering With Exit Door Mid-Flight  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 6, 2015 6:53 PM CUT  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 6, 2015 6:53 PM CUT A passenger was arrested on a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt to Belgrade Sunday after getting up mid-flight and tampering with the exit door. The Jordanian-American man changed seats multiple times after takeoff and started manipulating the exit door about an hour into the flight, [Reuters reports](http://news.yahoo.com/lufthansa-passenger-arrested-fumbling-door-during-flight-175125218--finance.html?utm%5Fsource=twitterfeed&utm%5Fmedium=facebook "undefined"). “There was no threat to the safety of the flight,” a spokesman for Lufthansa told Reuters, saying that passengers and crew restrained the man for the duration of the flight, and he was arrested by Serbian police after the plane landed safely in Belgrade. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4137832/lufthansa-passenger-exit-door/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4137832/lufthansa-passenger-exit-door/"},"headline":"Lufthansa Passenger Arrested For Tampering With Exit Door Mid-Flight","datePublished":"2015-12-06T18:53:41.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:08:37.543Z","description":"He was restrained and the plane landed safely","url":"https://time.com/4137832/lufthansa-passenger-exit-door/","keywords":["Companies","aircraft","airplanes"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"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":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/companies/","name":"Companies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4137832/lufthansa-passenger-exit-door/","name":"Lufthansa Passenger Arrested For Tampering With Exit Door Mid-Flight"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"What is the safest place to sit on a plane?","description":"Where you should sit next time you get onboard","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/bJ6pkbGM/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-06-24T19:59:50.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/bJ6pkbGM.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4137832/lufthansa-passenger-exit-door/","duration":"PT1M50S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4137832/lufthansa-passenger-exit-door/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```