An
American Airlines flight, operated by SkyWest Airlines, made an emergency
landing in Nebraska Monday night after the pilots could not reach the flight
attendants and they heard someone outside the cockpit door, according to the
Federal Aviation Administration.
Flight
6469 took off from Omaha’s Eppley Airfield at 6:41 p.m. local time headed to
Los Angeles, but almost immediately turned around, landing just 18 minutes
later, according to the tracking site FlightAware.
“After
landing, it was determined there was a problem with the inter-phone system and
the flight crew was knocking on the cockpit door,” the FAA said in a statement.
A photo
of the plane after it landed showed the Embraer ERJ 175 regional jet parked
away from the terminal with two firetrucks surrounding it.
Omaha’s
airport authority would only say there was no security incident at the airport,
and directed all questions to American Airlines.
