The panic began when a pilot reportedly heard knocking on the cockpit door and was unable to contact his crew. Thinking someone was attempting to break into the cockpit, he chose to make an emergency landing, USA Today reports.

A flight made an emergency landing Monday after its pilots lost a radio link with flight staff, prompting them to bang on the locked cockpit door and raising fears that someone was trying to break in. Flight 6569 set off from Omaha, Nebraska, to Los ...

View post: Ninja's Non-Stick Pan Set Is 50% Off Right Now, and It's Being Called a 'Workhorse' in the Kitchen Pilots mistook crew’s banging for a cockpit breach due to communication failure. Emergency landing was made in Omaha; FAA confirmed interphone ...