The crew, armed with a coffee pot, came to the rescue.
Wielding their aircraft galley’s coffee pot as a makeshift weapon, the crew of an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. subdued a passenger attempting to pry open the plane’s door on Sunday afternoon.
“He was trying to but he couldn’t get to it,” the pilot told another passenger, in footage of the conversation shared on Sunday’s midair chaos occurred roughly three hours into the five-hour journey from Los Angeles Airport to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The pilot said it was fortunate the plane was just 40 miles from an airport—and ashowed it made a sharp left turn and rapid descent into Kansas City just before 2:30 p.m.
“Details are still coming in, but I don’t believe alcohol was a factor,” the spokesperson emailed, adding that he was not “100%” certain of that yet.
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