WORLD.— A plane that transported passengers from Omaha, Nebraskaa Los Angeles made a emergency landing minutes after starting the flight after the pilots they will think wrongly what someone was trying to break into the cabin.
The flight SkyWest Airlines 6469 had just left Omaha Eppley Airport around 7:45 p.m. on Monday when the plane’s pilots declared an emergency and returned to the airport.
A statement from SkyWest, a regional airline operated by American Airlines, said the plane “returned to Omaha for extreme caution after experimenting communication problems with a flight crew microphone.”
What happened on SkyWest Airlines flight 6469?
An American Airlines spokesman said Monday night that the intercom that pilots and flight attendants use to talk to each other had been left on by accident. The flight crewunable to communicate with the pilots, hit the cabin doorthe Federal Aviation Administration reported in a statement.
fearing a attempt to enter the cabinthe plane returned to Omaha airport. A local emergency dispatcher contacted by the airport initially requested that police be present at the landing, believing someone had been trying to enter the plane’s cabin.
The dispatcher was later heard canceling that request.
“It was reported that there was no emergency,” the dispatcher said. “There was a personnel problem“.
A photo of the plane after landing showed the Embraer ERJ 175 regional jet parked away from the terminal with two fire trucks surrounding it.
The flight later continued to Los Angeles. The Omaha Airport Authority simply said there was no security incident at the airport and directed all questions to American Airlines.
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