Open door forces passenger plane to turn back

Something does not sound right here.... If they had that much of a gap there would have been a sequel long before being 40 minutes airborne.... This being a 737-800 (NG Aircraft) there would have door warnings, and not to mention a very loud noise... This being found 40 minutes out is either someone not paying attention or a seal blew out... Either way, it is a plug door and would not have come out, the a/c could have continued safely with no problems.... The DOOR could not in anyway shape or form have come out of the aircraft... The comment that no injuries were reported... Give me a break.. It says they turned back and made a successful landing... Why would we suspect anything else...

As usual, I guess the US is not the only ones looking for crap on a slow news days... We just had a plane to make an air turn back due to a similar issue, but it was because of a door seal and they could not pressurize the plane.. DUH..

I guess somebody finally figured out what that loud whistling noise was!

Great comments from other members below :)

I don't get why the CNN reporter made this such a dramatic situation. The media is unbelievable!!!

Good job to those flight attendants, that training really paid off... hehehe

""Please wait until the plane comes to a complete halt before departing the aircraft. Please do not get up all at once."

Doesn't a recorded voice announce "The Door is ajar?"

Flight:
http://flightaware.com/live/flight/HL7555/history/20160102/1713Z/RPVM/RPVM
From AVHerald:
http://avherald.com/h?article=491ca351&opt=0

We had a similar kind of thing happen. The seal on the service door got caught up a bit and didn't seal fully. So, there was a whistling noise. As a precaution, we kept our altitude lower on our fairly short flight, landed just fine, and had it worked on after we got there.

This Korean Air subsidiary did an inspection after landing and found a package of Macadamia nuts in the door!

Seriously, it seems that they found the problem at 10,000 feet. That should be just a few minutes after takeoff, unless the density altitude was 500,000 feet. Did they have to burn off/dump fuel to get to landing weight?

So THAT is what that light is for...

Copilot - 'what is that light for?', Pilot - 'it's just a nuisance indicator, it's on all the time', Copilot - 'but it says the doors are not all closed', Pilot - 'ignore it, we will get it fixed when we get home'. Someone should really check to see if this or a similar conversation happened before leaving to fly across that big pond between Cebu and Busan. There were 3 people responsible for ensuring the doors were closed and secured, it is likely the cabin steward will be held responsible for an air turnback.

Lousy airline