Now, this thing is being reported as a seriously bungled "security exercise"
ATC actually advised the flight deck crew that the flight was being hijacked. They locked the door thinking the hijackers were in the cabin. The cabin crew and pax thought the hijackers were in the cockpit.Aircraft lands, no one on the ground knows it's an exercise, and it's four hours before things are straightened out.
A security exercise, in-flight, with pax on board?
Words fail me and heads should roll.
[ 03 October 2001: Message edited by: Rollingthunder ]