Probe in to Air France flight
07.05.08
An Air France plane operating a flight from Manchester Airport to Paris last weekend was forced to climb 10,000ft to avoid another jet because the pilot was showing off to a boy in the cockpit, passengers have told the Manchester Evening News.
The newspaper reports that pilot of the Air France flight to Paris on Saturday suddenly pitched left at 33,000ft and the crew allegedly announced the Airbus jet, with 143 passengers on board, had got `too close' to another plane.
The airline has launched an investigation after passengers at the front of the aircraft told them that they saw one of the cabin crew escort a French boy, aged about 13, into the cockpit. Taking passengers into the cockpit is contrary to rules brought in after the September 11 terror attacks.
A spokeswoman for Air France told the newspaper: ‘We take these allegations extremely seriously. We are investigating.’
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