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Delta captain was locked out of cockpit
Co-pilot safely landed the aircraft without assistance
(CNN)An airplane landing without the captain in the cockpit?
That's why aircraft have co-pilots.
On Thursday, a door malfunction locked the captain out of the cockpit on Delta Air Lines Flight 1651 from Minneapolis/St. Paul before final approach into McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.
The first officer "alerted the airport to an 'emergency in-air' at approximately 12:10 p.m PT" and made an unassisted landing, McCarran spokeswoman Christine Crews said.
"A commercial aircraft can be landed with one pilot at the control and Delta pilots are fully trained to do so if the situation were to occur," a Delta representative said in a statement. "The First Officer took control and landed the aircraft safely without incident. The door will be evaluated by Delta maintenance technicians."
There were 160 people on board the MD-90 aircraft, which landed at 12:23 p.m. with no injuries or damage to the aircraft, Crews said.
Glad the f/o was able to land without any injuries or damage to the aircraft....that almost never happens
I can't remeber which of their birds have tillers on the right side too. I think it might have been the 757 or the -900. But either way FO's are paid the same.
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Do not wish death for your enemy, plan it.
Get the marshal to ax the door down. "Ladies and gentlemen, stay calm, stay calm, we're performing 'The Shining' later today and want to do a dress rehearsal."
So any bets the co-joe just locked the fuker out so he didn't have to listen to him anymore? lol yeah "door malfunction". Suuure. Oh whoops, seems to be working fine now, not sure what happened...
On Thursday, a door malfunction locked the captain out of the cockpit on Delta Air Lines Flight 1651 from Minneapolis/St. Paul before final approach into McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.
Why was the captain out of the cockpit just before the final approach????
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Transport Canada's mission statement: We're not happy until you're not happy
. I'll bank that idea for my first 2-crew job!
