Wizz Air cockpit door opened during hard landing, passengers shocked

Okosutas.hu, a Hungarian travel news outlet, wrote an unbelievable story about a Wizz Air plane that took off in Budapest and carried its passengers to Berlin. During the hard landing in the German capital, the cockpit’s door surprisingly opened, but that was not the only weird moment during the travel.

Okosutas.hu begins its article with how much the Hungarian low-cost airline, Wizz Air, was late last year. They wrote that, compared to other airlines, Wizz Air had a hard time dealing with such situations on many occasions. Last summer saw extreme delays and flight cancellations, but the airline promised to organise this summer’s flights better and with higher time margins. As a result, theoretically, it will not happen that, due to the delays, a flight would not take off since the destination airport closed or the crew’s working time ended. That happened multiple times last year: the last round of a Wizz plane was omitted due to the daily lags.

Okosutas.hu wrote about a plane that could not take off from Budapest Airport because the pilot did not arrive in time. The plane arrived from Athens with a one-hour delay, and the company changed its crew for the next flight to Berlin. Before, Wizz Air used the same crew for that four sectors. The modification is probably the consequence of the aforementioned changes aiming to improve service quality and minimise delays.

Wizz Air plane had no captain, cockpit door opened

However, there was no captain, so they needed to wait. The news outlet laments that if Wizz Air needs to carry out such short notice modification regarding the personnel during the preseason, we should expect worse situations in the high season. But the captain missing was not the only odd part of that travel from Budapest to Berlin. During the hard landing in the German capital, the cockpit door opened. Theoretically, that needs a code to open, so such events should not happen because of a touchdown. However, the crew reacted professionally. Two of them jumped to their feet and closed the door instantly.

The flight could not make up for the delay it collected in Athens because of the missing captain later that day. Even the evening flight to Barcelona arrived with a delay. Okosutas.hu says Wizz Air still has problems with keeping turnaround times. Therefore, passengers should calculate with such delays in the case of Wizz Air flights.