Passengers on board an Air Services Limited (ASL) flight from Matthews Ridge, North West District,Wholesale Shoes Free Shipping Worldwide, got the scare of their lives when the upper portion of the door of a Cessna aircraft burst open shortly after takeoff early yesterday morning.The pilot was forced to return to the airstrip to get the problem rectified amidst the screams of the panic-stricken passengers.The company’s management confirmed the incident, but indicated that although it was a worrying development it should not be blown out of proportion, since the pilot followed the necessary procedures to ensure the safety of all the passengers.But that was little comfort to an obviously shaken female passenger who contacted this newspaper immediately after touching down safely at the Ogle Airport.The woman, who asked not to be named,Discount Adidas Shoes Australia, recalled that she boarded the flight shortly before 08:00 hours yesterday along with about 12 other passengers. She explained that shortly before take-off, she overheard someone telling the pilot that there was a problem with the door of the aircraft.“While they trying to lock it, the pilot turn and say the light still on pon de monitor, but he turn and say when we reach to town, he gon let dey fix it. We didn’t really know what was going on, we don’t know nothing about plane,” the woman explained.She said they eventually took off and as they were about three minutes into the flight, over an area called White Creek, “all hell broke loose”.“Is in de air we deh, a couple hundred feet up in de air, the door fly open because it didn’t lock properly…and everybody on de plane start screaming, children start vomiting. The plane start to wobble and the pilot turn back,” the passenger recalled.She said that one of the other passengers, who is related to her, had to hold down the opened door, reportedly to assist the pilot to land the plane safely.The woman, who resides in the city but operates a business in the North West District,Cheap Air Max 270 Mens, is adamant that given the earlier observation before the aircraft took off,Basket Jordan Junior Pas Cher, the pilot should have ensured that all is well before taking to the skies the first time.She said that she was coming out to see her children after the Christmas holidays and really thought that she would not have made it.“I was telling myself that this is it for me. I scream and I say I wouldn’t see me children. It is not no nice experience for a plane door to fly open with you while you in de air,” she stated.According to the woman, she saw another female passenger clutching her baby tightly,Cheap Manchester City Soccer Jerseys, thinking that they would have been sucked through the open door.To compound matters, after taking off for the second time, they encountered bad weather throughout the flight to Ogle.The woman said that she sat through the entire flight a nervous wreck.“This plane was dancing up and down. I never pray all de time I going to Northwest and I never cry,Air Max Wholesale Ireland, but I cry this time.”She said that she did not report the incident to the company’s office at Ogle when the plane landed.“All I wanted was to go to the toilet and then get home and lie down. Right now I’m trembling, I am nervous. My heart is still palpitating. It was a very bad experience, one that I never had before. It was scary,” she stressed.She is convinced that if the aircraft was higher and further away from the Matthews Ridge airstrip, a certain disaster would have occurred.But despite the woman’s obvious fear and anxiety, ASL officials said that given the experience of the pilot, at no time was the safety of the passengers compromised.? A senior ASL official explained that the aircraft is not a pressurised one and as such, nothing could have been sucked out, even though the door was open.The official pointed out that although the door warning indication light was on, all the preliminary operating procedures were applied prior to the departure of the Cessna 208.“Our pilot came out and physically and examined the door….this was not a scenario where the plane would have fallen out of the sky. The pilot is a seasoned pilot and he knew what to do in such a situation.”The official said that the company empathised with the passengers, since the experience can have a psychological effect on them. He assured, though, that there is an ensuing investigation in conjunction with the Civil Aviation Department and the manufacturers of the aircraft.“The incident warrants an investigation,” the ASL official told Kaieteur News.