Washington
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An American Airlines flight, operated by SkyWest Airlines, made an emergency landing in Nebraska Monday evening after the pilots couldn’t attain the flight attendants and they heard somebody outdoors the cockpit door, in keeping with the Federal Aviation Administration.
Flight 6469 took off from Omaha’s Eppley Airfield at 6:41 p.m. native time headed to Los Angeles, however virtually instantly circled, landing simply 18 minutes later, in keeping with the monitoring web site FlightConscious.
“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 stated in a press release.
A photograph of the aircraft after it landed confirmed the Embraer ERJ 175 regional jet parked away from the terminal with two firetrucks surrounding it.
Omaha’s airport authority would solely say there was no safety incident on the airport, and directed all inquiries to American Airlines.
NCS has reached out to Skywest and American Airlines for extra info.