Flight from Mexico erupts into chaos after man opens cabin door!

A panicking plane passenger was almost 'sucked into a jet engine' after opening a cabin door just before take off.



The panic stricken passenger, American Tommy Gray, of Centralia, Missouri, was on a Frontier Airlines plane to St Louis, Missouri, from Cancun, Mexico, when he became ill.



In a shocking video, recorded by passenger Kathleen Ingram, the man is seen opening the cabin door in a panic while the powerful jet engines were running.



Desperate passengers and staff on board the plane tried to restrain him from leaping out of the plane's cabin door, and possibly into the powerful jet engines



When the cabin door was opened, an emergency slide was also deployed.



The aircraft has been taken out of service since the viral clip surfaced while an aircraft maintenance team investigates why the slide automatically deployed.



Passengers claim Gray ran up to the cockpit and started pounding on the door.



Cabin crew intervened and returned the man to his seat, but Gray then got up and opened the cabin door.



Startled passengers and staff on board the plane tried to restrain him from leaping out of the plane, and possibly into the powerful jet engines.




The passenger who recorded the video, Ms Ingham, wrote on Facebook: 'Thank God for the brave men and women who held him in the plane or he for sure would have been sucked into the engine'.



Police took Mr Gray from the aircraft and he later went to hospital.



The plane was grounded and travellers were given other flights or hotel rooms.



The incident took place on Monday, October 22 at around 2pm.