{"id":647446,"date":"2025-09-23T12:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=647446"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:08:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:38:43","slug":"passenger-tries-to-open-cockpit-door-on-bengaluru-varanasi-flight-mistook-it-for-lavatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/passenger-tries-to-open-cockpit-door-on-bengaluru-varanasi-flight-mistook-it-for-lavatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger tries to open cockpit door on Bengaluru-Varanasi flight, \u2018mistook it for lavatory&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger aboard an Air India Express flight from Bengaluru to Varanasi on Monday tried to open the cockpit door mid-air but was caught after he incorrectly pressed the security code, HT has learnt. The airlines said he told the crew he mistook the cockpit&#8217;s door for the toilet&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Security officials citing information sent by the pilot to the the Air Traffic Control told HT that the passenger, identified only as \u201cMr Mani\u201d, had \u201cpressed the security code of the cockpit door\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A passenger aboard an Air India Express flight from Bengaluru to Varanasi on Monday tried to open the cockpit door mid-air but was caught after he incorrectly pressed the security code, HT has learnt. The airlines said he told the crew he mistook the cockpit&#8217;s door for the toilet&#8217;s. Security officials citing information sent by the pilot to the the Air Traffic Control told HT that the passenger, identified only as \u201cMr Mani\u201d, had \u201cpressed the security code of the cockpit door\u201d.<\/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":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647446","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=647446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}