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Pilots on an LAX-bound flight thought people were trying to breach the cabin and declared an emergency
Los Angeles Times ^
| Oct. 21, 2025 10:14 AM PT
| Summer Lin
Posted on 10/21/2025 2:40:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A flight bound for Los Angeles International Airport on Monday evening was diverted after a communication issue resulted in the pilots thinking people were trying to breach the cockpit, officials said.
An American Airlines flight left from Eppley Airfield in Omaha around 4:40 p.m. and returned to the airport about 20 minutes later for an unknown reason, according to flight tracking website
FlightAware.
A spokesperson for the Federal Aviation Administration
told KTLA-TV Channel 5 that the plane was diverted because of an issue with the plane’s internal phone communication system. The pilot reportedly declared an emergency and turned around after he heard knocking on the cockpit door and couldn’t reach the cabin crew. As it turned out, it was the cabin crew trying to reach the pilots, according to officials.
The Omaha airport officials wrote in a social media statement that there “was no security related incident at Eppley Airfield this evening.”
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: Colorado; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: airlinesecurity; california; colorado; denver; eppley; eppleyairfield; isolatedincidents; lax; losangeles; omaha; roswell; saltlakecity; spammingfr; unitedairlines; utah; weatherballoon; windbornesystems
To: E. Pluribus Unum
What really? No “secret knock” training? lol
Actually now days one might lean towards better to be safe than to be sorry with a flying bomb...
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posted on
10/21/2025 2:54:08 PM PDT
by
Openurmind
(AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
DEI
Flight waitresses can’t use the comm system?
Maybe their bright big eyeglasses had a bad prescription?
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posted on
10/21/2025 2:58:46 PM PDT
by
9422WMR
To: Openurmind
Actually now days one might lean towards better to be safe than to be sorry with a flying bomb... Did the right thing in my opinion. If the communication system was down, there was no telling what was on the other side of that door.
To: 9422WMR
Flight waitresses can’t use the comm system? According to the article (I know, I know, it's against the rules to read it) the communication system was down.
To: Openurmind
I always thought shave-and-a-haircut was standard
To: bigdaddy45
They would have to know English for that one wouldn’t they? :)
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posted on
10/21/2025 4:20:54 PM PDT
by
Openurmind
(AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Perfect. System/plan worked, phones failed.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
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posted on
10/21/2025 4:47:44 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Totally confusing piece here. Awful writing.
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posted on
10/21/2025 5:25:06 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I rember rumors after 911 that unsuccessful attemps to hijack planes were never reported on. Bad guys unable to get in and pilots told that nothing happened after landing.
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posted on
10/21/2025 5:53:42 PM PDT
by
TBall
To: E. Pluribus Unum
No one had the pilot’s cell phone number?
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posted on
10/21/2025 6:59:30 PM PDT
by
PAR35
(I)
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