Alaska Airlines has had a wild range of coverage here at Not the Bee.
There was the door that flew off in 2024, sucking out an iPhone that survived a 16,000-foot fall over Portland.
There was the 2023 incident where a pilot on shrooms tried to crash the plane to "wake up" from the dream he thought he was having.
There was the twerking flight attendant who got fired earlier this year.
Also in 2025 was an incident where a flight had to be evacuated due to a "smelly cockpit."
In 2023, a man made a bomb threat onboard a flight so he could get arrested, claiming a cartel was going to kill him when they landed in Seattle.
In 2020, a Las Vegas man stalled a flight by dancing on the wing.
Now, we have a passenger from Deadhorse (a real Alaskan town) who apparently tried to open a door mid-flight, as if doors falling off themselves weren't already enough of an issue!
Here's the Anchorage Daily News:
Kassian William Fredericks, 36, was arrested Sunday on charges of interfering with flight crew members and attendants. Fredericks was acting erratically on the Dec. 10 evening flight when he moved to the rear of the cabin and started trying to pull open the door, according to a criminal complaint filed Friday by an Anchorage-based FBI special agent.
He was overheard telling doctors he had been drinking continuously for the last nine or 10 days and was hallucinating, the agent wrote, adding Fredericks also said he had a prescription for a medication used to treat anxiety.
He must have heard that the pilot who tried to crash the plane while on shrooms got a slap on the wrist!
This wasn't just a normal passenger flight. The plane was full of workmen from the Northslope oil fields in Alaska.
It was those workers who actually restrained Fredericks after he attempted to open the door (and jump out of the plane).
As the evening flight got underway, flight attendants noticed Fredericks was behaving in an erratic manner and refused to give him alcohol on a beverage service prior to the incident, according to a sworn affidavit filed with the complaint.
A passenger leaving the lavatory then saw Fredericks 'aggressively' trying to open the cabin door, the affidavit said, at which point several passengers restrained him with some difficulty. One passenger said it was a good thing the plane carried 'a lot of North Slope workers who were bigger in stature to be able to help,' the agent wrote.
He had managed to remove the safety strap and lift the handle out of its normal position before being restrained.
Fredericks, who calmed down significantly by the time the plane touched down, apologized to the crew before being taken into custody. EMT workers and police met the plane on the ground after landing, and the alleged door-handle jiggler was taken into custody.
We'll see if the hallucination get-out-of-jail-free card works this time around!
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