US pilots lose contact with crew, make emergency landing after hearing mysterious banging on cockpit door

An American Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after the pilots thought someone was trying to break into the cockpit. The airline, operated by SkyWest Airlines, made an emergency landing in Nebraska on Monday night, the New York Post reported.

Flight 6469 took off from Omaha, Nebraska, at 7:23 pm ET (4:53 am IST) but returned and landed at Eppley Airfield just 36 minutes later, according to data from FlightRadar. The plane had travelled only 40 miles into the 1,300-mile journey before it made a U-turn.