A viral video showing a Colorado Rockies baseball coach in the cockpit of an United Airlines charter flight from Denver to Toronto sparked a federal investigation, officials confirmed Friday.
A viral video showing a Colorado Rockies baseball coach in the cockpit of a United Airlines charter flight from Denver to Toronto sparked a federal investigation, officials confirmed Friday., originally posted to social media by the Rockies’ hitting coach Hensley Meulens, appears to show a member of the coaching staff sitting in one of the plane’s two pilot seats while the flight was en route to Canada.
The coach can be heard in the video joking about landing the plane while pretending to take over the plane’s controls. At one point in the video, a second member of the coaching staff enters the cockpit.“We’re deeply disturbed by what we see in that video, which appears to show an unauthorized person in the flight deck at cruise altitude while the autopilot was engaged,” United spokesperson Russell Carlton said in an emailed statement to the Denver Post Friday.
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