A student pilot tried to enter the cockpit of a cross-country flight, claiming he was testing the crew members. The incident occurred on Alaska Airlines Flight 322 from San Diego to Dulles International Airport. The pilot made multiple attempts to open the cockpit door but was restrained by off-duty law enforcement officers for the remainder of the flight.
After Flight 322 landed, the teen consented to have his belongings searched and investigators found “multiple notebooks with writings describing how to operate an aircraft, including take-off, in-air and landing techniques,” according to an affidavit. A student pilot tried getting into the cockpit of a cross-country flight to Washington D.C., telling crew members he was merely "testing them" with this dangerous stunt, authorities said.
Nathan Jones, 19, was aboard Alaska Airlines Flight 322 from San Diego to Dulles International Airport on March 3 when he "made three separate attempts to go to the front of the plane and open the aircraft's cockpit door," according to an affidavit by Federal Air Marshal Thomas Pattinson. Flight attendants "requested the assistance of off-duty law enforcement officers, who restrained Jones in flex cuffs and sat on either side of him for the remainder of the flight," Pattinson added. When flight attendants asked Jones what he was doing, the defendant allegedly said he "was testing them," according to the affidavi
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