Daily News: Odd News - Australian mistook cockpit for toilet, triggering hijack scare

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Saturday, Apr 26, 2014 05:39 AM PDT
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Australian mistook cockpit for toilet, triggering hijack scare  Saturday, Apr 26, 2014 05:39 AM PDT By Chris Nusatya and Morag MacKinnon JAKARTA/PERTH (Reuters) - An Australian passenger mistook the cockpit door for the toilet, triggering Friday's hijack scare on a Virgin Australia flight from Brisbane to the Indonesian holiday island of Bali, police said. Matt Lockley told Bali police after his arrest that he banged on what he thought was the toilet door for a last-minute bathroom break before the Boeing 737-800 aircraft landed. The door was actually the cockpit door and the pilot, Neil Thomas Cooper, responded by alerting Indonesian traffic controllers of a possible hijacking. Crew members then seized Lockley and handcuffed him. Full Story

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