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one, apparently. When pilot for Dutch airline Transavia returned from
the bathroom, he realized that he was locked out of the Boeing 737 cockpit,
with the first officer inside asleep!
According to a Dutch Safety Board report released Wednesday, the pilot
stepped out of the cockpit to take a bathroom break about 2½
hours into the flight.
When he returned a short time later, the pilot used an intercom to
ask his first officer to open the door. There was no answer, the report
said.
Eventually, the pilot alerted the crew and was able to open the door
himself. That's when he found the first officer asleep, according to
the report.
"It's a serious incident," said Wim van der Weegen of the
Dutch Safety Board, "What makes it serious is the combination of
the pilot being unable to access the cockpit and the first officer being
asleep.
"By 'serious incident,' I mean the flight was in danger,"
he said.
Thom Patterson of CNN reports:
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