A pilot has been under fire after allowing his girlfriend not only to sneak into the cockpit mid-flight but for letting her sit in the pilot’s seat as he took a picture of her.
The incident occurred in China on a commercial flight from Guilin to Yangzhou. During the flight, the unnamed pilot somehow managed to sneak his girlfriend inside the cockpit and allowed her to take control of the aircraft with dozens or even hundreds of people on it.
After taking photos of his girlfriend, the woman proudly shared them on social media from where they spread to different platforms with angry members of the public demanding the pilot gets banned from flying.
“Thanks to the captain. So happy,” the woman, who is allegedly a flight attendant in training, captioned her photos.
Following the incident, Air Guilin, the Chinese carrier that the pilot was flying for, slammed the reckless actions and called out the pilot for breaching Civil Aviation Administration regulations.
As the airline stated, the pilot has been banned from flying for life, whereas other staff involved in the incident got “suspended indefinitely.”
“Passengers’ safety is always Air Guilin’s priority,” they told BBC.
“We take a zero-tolerance approach against any inappropriate and unprofessional behavior that might risk aviation safety.”
In a similar incident that happened recently, a flight attendant for British Airways was accused of causing a scene by getting a pilot involved in a brawl with her boyfriend. According to The Sun, the woman’s boyfriend “got hammered and ended up fighting with the BA pilot.”
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