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Teen opens emergency door on a plane, jumps onto tarmac at San Francisco airport

Click to play video: '17-year-old arrested after opening emergency door, exiting flight on taxiway at airport in San Francisco'
17-year-old arrested after opening emergency door, exiting flight on taxiway at airport in San Francisco
A teenage passenger aboard a Copa Airlines flight from Panama City, opened an emergency door and jumped out onto the runway as it was on a taxiway at an airport in San Francisco – Aug 1, 2017

San Francisco airport officials say a teenage boy opened the emergency door of a plane that had just landed and jumped onto the tarmac.

Airport spokesman Doug Yakel says an airfield construction crew confronted the 17-year-old boy, who has been arrested and is in police custody.

He says Copa Airlines Flight 208 from Panama City landed Tuesday afternoon and was waiting to head to a gate when the teenager, who appeared to be in emotional distress, jumped from the aircraft.

Yakel says the teenager is a U.S. citizen and was travelling alone.

He says no runways or flights were affected and that the unidentified boy wasn’t injured.

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Yakel says the plane went to its assigned gate and all passengers got off the flight without incident.

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