Originally Posted by
The Mixmaster
Pretty shabby grammar if that is the case!
*If* the door was indeed removed from the flight deck side, perhaps you need to look at the statement from the other direction too:
"The first officer had remained on the flight deck, but was unable to open the jammed door, forcing the crew to remove it from its hinges with only 30 minutes remaining in the flight from Ottawa to Winnipeg, she said."
For the journalist responsible for paraphrasing (no doubt) the person directly commenting, the above use of grammar appears to have worked brilliantly: it's technically accurate but it's convinced you and no doubt many others that the door was removed from the cabin side. Job done, n'est ce pas?
Cheers,
Rich.