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The Sri Lankan sports player was seen trying to open the cabin door at 35,000ft on a British Airways flight from St Lucia to Gatwick after playing against the West Indies.
He was spotted pushing and pulling for up to two minutes at the exterior day on the full flight by fellow passengers.
Passenger Charlene Francis, 26, said: It was pretty frightening. Suddenly he came over and tried to open the cabin door several times. It went on for a few minutes. He was pulling quite heavily.
Some of his team-mates were shouting and telling him to stop. Somebody said they had been drinking for four hours before they got on the plane.
The recruitment consultant, from Willesden, North London, added: The flight attendants came running down the aisle and tried to calm him down. It was very scary. He looked very dazed or drunk.
She explained the incident happened six hours into the eight hour flight and the man was among a group of cricketers wearing the blue Sri Lankan polo-shirt with their country's name in yellow lettering.
She heard him tell cabin crew aboard the Boeing 777 carrying 229 passengers that he had been looking for the toilet.
A British Airways spokesman said: During the flight a man got up and tried to go to the toilet. But instead of going to the toilet he tried to open the aircraft door in midflight.
The event was linked to an element of alcohol. He explained his mistake and cabin crew accepted it in good faith.
BA stressed that it is impossible to open the pressurised door in mid-flight.
At Gatwick, the players boarded a flight for Sri Lanka.
Officials confirmed that the man was a Sri Lankan cricketer but declined to name him.
Drunk cricket player tries to open plane cabin door at 35,000ft - Telegraph
He was spotted pushing and pulling for up to two minutes at the exterior day on the full flight by fellow passengers.
Passenger Charlene Francis, 26, said: It was pretty frightening. Suddenly he came over and tried to open the cabin door several times. It went on for a few minutes. He was pulling quite heavily.
Some of his team-mates were shouting and telling him to stop. Somebody said they had been drinking for four hours before they got on the plane.
The recruitment consultant, from Willesden, North London, added: The flight attendants came running down the aisle and tried to calm him down. It was very scary. He looked very dazed or drunk.
She explained the incident happened six hours into the eight hour flight and the man was among a group of cricketers wearing the blue Sri Lankan polo-shirt with their country's name in yellow lettering.
She heard him tell cabin crew aboard the Boeing 777 carrying 229 passengers that he had been looking for the toilet.
A British Airways spokesman said: During the flight a man got up and tried to go to the toilet. But instead of going to the toilet he tried to open the aircraft door in midflight.
The event was linked to an element of alcohol. He explained his mistake and cabin crew accepted it in good faith.
BA stressed that it is impossible to open the pressurised door in mid-flight.
At Gatwick, the players boarded a flight for Sri Lanka.
Officials confirmed that the man was a Sri Lankan cricketer but declined to name him.
Drunk cricket player tries to open plane cabin door at 35,000ft - Telegraph
