{"id":647402,"date":"2025-09-23T12:27:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647402"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:57:55","slug":"midair-scare-as-flyer-enters-cockpit-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/midair-scare-as-flyer-enters-cockpit-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Midair scare as flyer enters cockpit code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VARANASI\/NEW DELHI: A hijack scare gripped an Air India Express flight from Bengaluru to Varanasi Monday after a man tried to unlock the cockpit door mid-air by entering random digits on its keypad, triggering a security buzzer inside the flight deck.<\/p>\n<p>Cabin crew confronted the passenger, identified as Mani R, who claimed he was a first-time flyer looking for the lavatory. He returned to his seat, but the move prompted the captain of Flight IX-1086, a Boeing 737, to alert Varanasi ATC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VARANASI\/NEW DELHI: A hijack scare gripped an Air India Express flight from Bengaluru to Varanasi Monday after a man tried to unlock the cockpit door mid-air by entering random digits on its keypad, triggering a security buzzer inside the flight deck. Cabin crew confronted the passenger, identified as Mani R, who claimed he was a first-time flyer looking for the lavatory. He returned to his seat, but the move prompted the captain of Flight IX-1086, a Boeing 737, to alert Varanasi ATC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}