A flight made an emergency touchdown Monday after its pilots misplaced a radio hyperlink with flight employees, prompting them to bang on the locked cockpit door and elevating fears that somebody was making an attempt to interrupt in.
Flight 6569 set off from Omaha, Nebraska, to Los Angeles at 7:23 p.m. ET however rotated and landed again at Eppley Airfield simply 36 minutes later, in line with FlightRadar.
The American Airways flight was operated by regional service SkyWest. Each didn’t instantly reply to in a single day requests for remark.
The Federal Aviation Administration mentioned in an announcement that the aircraft landed safely “after declaring an emergency when the pilot couldn’t contact the cabin crew.”
“After touchdown, it was decided there was an issue with the inter-phone system and the flight crew was knocking on the cockpit door,” the assertion mentioned.
In accordance with video shot after the aircraft landed, the captain introduced to confused passengers: “We weren’t positive if one thing was happening with the airplane, in order that’s why we’re coming again right here. It is gonna be a bit of bit. We’ve got to determine what is going on on.”
Doorways on passenger jets are usually locked throughout flights and had been strengthened in line with FAA guidelines launched after 9/11. Nevertheless, most business planes even have a touchpad by which flight crew can request entry — it isn’t clear whether or not this was tried on this case.
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