Before people knee-jerk themselves, the good news is that Oom Dirk didn’t put the passengers’ lives at risk. Contrary to what Hollywood tells us, a modern commercial aeroplane’s door can not be opened mid-flight. (Well, it can, but only under very specific conditions.) It’s all quite technical, but it has to do with pressure and the mechanisms that hold all of the doors in place, and other complicated stuff.

However, Oom Dirk is still a poephol.