UNITED KINGDOM: Pilot Tries To Climb Into The Cockpit After Forgetting His-Keys

A pilot was spotted trying to squeeze into the cockpit of a plane through the window after apparently forgetting his keys. Hilarious footage of the incident, which was posted to Twitter, has already had over 12,000 views.

British Airways pilot Jonny the Pilot posted the footage to his Twitter account with the caption: When you’re running late for work and you forget your keys…

In the video, the pilot, who has not been identified, could be seen with one leg already in the open cockpit window.

Using his left arm, he tried to pull himself through – but while trying to get his other leg through, the platform he was standing on moved and he had to start again.

Seeming to be stuck, he then looked inside, presumably for another set of keys, while another member of the flight crew walked up behind him to help.

The video was filmed at Heathrow Airport, with social media users shocked and confused by the pilot’s actions.


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900 Flights Cancelled Lufthansa Strike

Lufthansa said it would cancel nearly 900 flights on Wednesday because of a strike by pilots, causing travel disruption for tens of thousands of passengers in the latest escalation of a long-running pay dispute.

The stoppage, called by the pilots’ union Cockpit, would start at midnight and affect Lufthansa flights at airports across Germany.

Out of its roughly 3,000 scheduled flights, 876 would be cancelled due to the strike, “affecting some 100,000 passengers”, Lufthansa said in a statement.

It is the union’s 14th strike since April 2014.

Cockpit had initially called for a 24-hour stoppage but said late on Tuesday that the strike would continue into Thursday for both long and short-haul flights leaving Germany.

Meanwhile a separate walkout by cabin crew at Lufthansa’s low-cost airline Eurowings led to the cancellation of more than 60 flights at airports in Hamburg and Düsseldorf on Tuesday.

The industrial action was called by Germany’s biggest services union Verdi in a row over pay and working conditions.

The Lufthansa pilots going on strike are demanding a pay rise of an average of 3.66% per year, retroactive for the past five years.

The union says pilots have endured a wage freeze over that time and suffered a “significant loss of purchasing power” due to inflation, while Lufthansa has made billions in profits.

It had offered a 2.5% wage hike.