A Los Angeles-bound American Airlines flight, operated by SkyWest Airlines, made an emergency landing shortly after take-off due to the pilots fearing someone was attempting to break into the cockpit.
American Airlines Flight 6469 abruptly returned to Omaha, Nebraska, minutes after departure.
The pilots lost contact with the flight crew and heard banging on the cockpit door.
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“All of a sudden, we started banking around the city of Omaha. And, you know, you’re tilting the wings and everything,” a passenger traveling with his wife and seven-year-old daughter told CNN.
“My wife noticed that the stewardess was kind of banging on the cockpit door, like, OK, what’s going on?” he added.
Police boarded the plane after it safely landed in Omaha.
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