A British Airways pilot was suspended after allegedly leaving the cockpit door open during a transatlantic flight to JFK.<\/p>\n
A British Airways pilot was suspended after allegedly leaving the cockpit door open during a transatlantic flight from London Heathrow to New York JFK, so that his family\u2014travelling as passengers\u2014could watch him at the controls.<\/p>\n
According to The Sun, the incident took place last week and \u201calarmed\u201d some passengers on board. Other crew members reported the breach, prompting the airline to take immediate action.<\/p>\n
The pilot was suspended and the scheduled return flight to Heathrow on August 8 was cancelled as a result. Passengers booked on the service were re-routed on alternative flights, with most arriving within four hours of their original schedule.<\/p>\n
After an internal investigation, the pilot was reinstated when British Airways determined the incident did not pose a security threat.<\/p>\n
\u201cSafety and security is our top priority and allegations of this nature are always fully investigated,\u201d a British Airways spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
Since the September 11 attacks in 2001, international aviation rules have required cockpit doors to remain locked in flight to prevent unauthorised access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A British Airways pilot was suspended after allegedly leaving the cockpit door open during a transatlantic flight to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37331,84,59,9737,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-72613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-ba","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-jfk","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}